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BRAINTREE 

SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL: 



A EECOED OF THE SERVICES IN THE 'SVAR 
OF THE REBELLION 



OF THE MEN OF BRAINTUEE, MASSACHUSETTS, WHOSE NAMES AKE 
INSCRIBED ON THE 



BEAINTEEE SOLDIEES' MONUMENT; 



TOGFTIIER WITH 



APPENDICES CONTAINING A LIST OF BRAINTREE VOLUNTEERS IN THE 

UNION ARMY AND NAVT FROM 1861 TO 1865, THE PROCEEDINGS 

AT THE DEDICATION OF THE MONUMENT, JUNE 17, 1874, 

AND A NOTICE OF THE BRAINTREE BRANCH 

OK THE SANITARY COMMISSION. 



PREPAEED BY 

GEORGE A. THAYER. 



BOSTON: 

ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, 

34 School Street. 

1877. 






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The following record was compiled to l)e read at the dedi- 
cation of the Braintree Soldiers' Monument, June 17, 
1874. 

The compiler has aimed to obtain the full names of the 
soldiers and of their parents, and to give an accurate account 
of the term, places, and character of their service; but such 
thoroughness has, in many cases, been impossible of attain" 
ment. 

Some of the men were only temporary residents of Brain- 
tree at the time of their enlistment, and left no clew to the 
discovery of any relatives who could furnish information 
concerning their careers. A very few were substitutes fur- 
nished by recruiting brokers of Boston. And of those who 
were born or long resident in the town previous to their 
service, it has often been difficult to procure any facts with 
regard to their families, or any particulars of their army life, 
other than those supplied in the somewhat scanty public 
records. 

Amid such difficulties it will not be counted strange if 
omissions of matters worthy of historical preservation should 
occur in some of the biographies, although much pains has 
been taken to give th.e fullest practicable account of each 
individual's military experience, and the somewhat uncertain 
and untrustworthy recollections of friends and comrades 
have, in all possible instances, been compared with and cor- 
rected by official documents. 

The sources of material for the biographies have been the 



records aud annual reports of the adjutant-generals of 
Massachusetts and other States ; a considerable number of 
letters, diaries, and clippings from newspapers, kindly fur- 
nished by relatives of the men ; such regimental and army 
histories as would help determine the stations of commands 
— and consequently of the members of companies — at 
various times ; and personal conversation with companions in 
arms aud home acquaintances of the deceased soldiers. 

The names are given in the numerical order of the organi- 
zations of the several arms of service, beginning with the artil- 
lery, and following with the cavalry, the infantry, and the 
navy. 

[Note. — The compiler's labors have been much facilitated by assistance 
from Messrs. F. A. Hobart, Samuel A. Bates, and Marcus A. Perkins.] 



SOLDIEKS' MEMORIAL. 



FIRST HEAVY ARTILLERY. 

Elisha Paine Goodnow, son of Asaph and Maria ; en- 
listed March 3, 1862, in a company which was being recruited 
in Lynn for the 1st Heavy Artillery (ju^^t transformed from 
the 14th Infantry), and which became Co. M of that reifi- 
ment. His service was in the fortiticatlons about Washing- 
ton up to the si)ring of 1864. After the battle of the 
Wilderness, the First and several other artillery regiments 
were organized into a brigade, under General Tyler, and 
marched to the reinforcement of General Grant's army, 
reaching the neighborhood of Spotsylvania, on the road 
from Fredericksburg, on the 19th of May, just as the Con- 
federate General Ewell had attained the road in rear of the 
Union army for the seizure of its lines of communication. 
It was the first fight of the artillerists, but the strong bri- 
gade, equal in number to an average division of old soldiers, 
fell upon Ewell with such fury that he was speedily driven 
back in discomfiture. Swinton, in his "Army of the 
Potomac," says that "these green battalions, once under fire, 
displayed an audacity surpassing even the old troops." The 
1st Massachusetts lost in the affair 377 men out of its 1,617. 
Goodnow, foremost in courage, received a shot in his left 
side, from the effect of which he died in the field in about 
two hours, and there he was buried. His watch and money, 
turned over to a comrade to be returned to his widowed 
mother, were never heard from, let it be hoped rather on ac- 



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count of some subsequent misfortune to that companion than 
of his intentional dishonesty. Goodnow will be remembered 
as a fair-faced young man, of somewhat sober look, and of up- 
right character and purpose. He died at the age of twenty- 
three. 

William Higgins, son of John and Ann, was born in Bel- 
fast, Ireland. He enlisted March 17, 1862, in Co. M, 1st 
Heavy Artillery, at the age of seventeen, and re-enlisted as 
a veteran on the 20th of March, 1864. As nearly as can be 
determined, he was with his regiment in its hard service in 
the Army of the Potomac through the early summer of 1864, 
was taken prisoner probably on the 22d of June at the Wel- 
don Railroad, when 179 of the regiment were captured, and 
was sent tirst to Andersonville, Ga., and thence to Florence, 
S. C, where he died in prison on the loth of Fei>ruary, 
1865, of malarial fever, contracted in the hideous camp of 
the prison pen. His age at death was twenty. 



TWELFTH BATTERY. 

Silas Bixney Crane, son of .Joseph and Eliza, was born in 
Braintree, June — , 1843, and first enlisted in Co. B of 
the 43d (nine months) Infantry, on the 11th of October, 
1862, and was with the company in sundry skirmishes in 
North Carolina, returning home July 30, 1863. March 2Q, 
1864, he enlisted again as a recruit for the 12lh Battery, 
which was in the Department of the Gulf, where he served 
for a few weeks, being in some scouts and skirrai&hes, till 
he was attacked by the disease which terminated his life in 
the hospital at Port Pludson, on the 22d of June, 1864. A 
young man of good principle, he was held in much esteem 
by the acquaintance whom a natural shyness and reserve 
allowed him to make. 



SECOND CAVALRY. 

George Frederick Thayer, son of Ansel and Sarah 
(Arnold), was born Murch 29, 1837, and on the 3d of 
April, 1863, enlisted at San Francisco in the so-called 
California Battalion of Cavalry, which, being made np 
largely of Eastern residents on the Pacific coast who were 
desirons of taking some active part in the war, offered its 
services to Gov. Andrew, and was incorporated into the 
2d Massachnsetts Calvary, Colonel Lowell, which left Read- 
ville, Mass., on the 11th of May, 1863. He was, with his 
company, F, in constant service in Maryland and Virginia, 
near Washington, to the midsnramer of 1864, being in 
several sharp contests with Mosby's men. On the 13th of 
July, 1864, he, with several comrades, was captured in a 
fight with a superior force of the enemy, near Rockville, 
Md., and was carried to Danville, Va., whence, in company 
with Sergeant Finley, of his regiment, he escaped, on the 
afternoon of Oct. 20. The narrative of his escape, which 
he was eno-ao'ed in writing down to the time of his death, is 
full of exciting interest, and well exhibits the cool bravery 
of the man. The two comrades succeeded in removing some 
boards from an outhouse of the stockade, and, in imminent 
peril of being shot by the sentinels within and without the 
prison, hid in the ])ranches of a tree near by, where they 
stayed until dark, Avith soldiers and citizens constantly pass- 
ing beneath their place of refuge. Under cover of the night, 
they took to the woods, and so marched by night and slept 
in the woods by day, feeding upon such scanty rations of 
corn, pigs, or chickens as they might gather from time to 
lime, seldom daring to venture to a house, unless it were to 
the huts of those trusty friends of the Northern men, the 
negroes, compelled to wade swamps and creeks, and make 



long detours through forests and fields to evade the picUots, 
who were guarding all the main roads and prhicipal towns, 
and suffering greatly from hunger, cold, w^et, and bruised 
feet. They had no shoes, hut only some old socks for foot 
covering, npon his pair of which Frederick, while in prison, 
had secretly fastened some thin soles of knapsack leather, 
using for thread the ravellings from an old shelter tent, and 
finishing his work with such skill as he treasured from his 
former trade of a bootmaker. After two hundred and fifty 
miles of such journeying, they reached the Union Army 
lines at Newbern, N. C, and thence rejoined their regiment 
in Virginia. Frederick then received a furlough of twenty 
days, and visited his Braintree home. Going back to duty 
in the Shenandoah Valley, on the 1st of January, 1865, he 
engaged in the arduous cavalry campaign of Sheridan in the 
early spring, which was conducted through the valley nearly 
to Lynchburg, and thence eastward to the neighborhood of 
Richmond, resulting in immense damage to railroads, canals, 
bridges, and public property generally, and the destruction 
of many large tobacco warehouses. So trying was the 
campaign that only three horses of his company were left fit 
for duty at its end. With a brief rest, the regiment started 
on the final campaign in pursuit of Lee's army. On the 1st 
of April, 1865, Sheridan sent his cavalry to seize the impor- 
tant junction of Five Forks, where he hoped to plant his 
forces across the line of the enemy's retreat and bring him 
to bay. Frederick was in charge of some led horses in the 
rear, but requested to be relieved, that he might go to the 
front and, as he said (recalling his prison sufferings), "get 
even with the rebels." Thus eager for duty, he was shot 
throusrh the head and carried senseless to the rear. The 
papers in his pocket, which would have served for identifi- 
cation of his body, were unfortunately taken from him to be 
sent home, and so his remains could not be recognized for 



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recovery. He, too, lies buried in Virginia, with only the 
mark (if lie has even that), "Unknown Soldier." His diary, 
by aid of wliich his career in 1865 has been followed in 
compiling this narrative, was kept down to the last night of 
his life. His twenty- ninth birthday occurred three days before 
his death. His officers spoke of him as a soldier of sterling 
character, modest and retiring, but of strong, outspoken 
principle. To this testimonial those who knew him in civil 
life will gladly bear witness. 

Ow^EN Fox, Co. H, 2d Cavalry, of Irish birth, was an 
employee of the Bostou Flax Mills, at East Braintree. 
According to the Adjutant-General's books, he enlisted Oft. 
9, 18G3, as a recruit, and joined his regiment (probal)!}^) 
Oct. 26, at Vienna, Va. The 2d Cavalry having been organ- 
ized by one of the most accomplished of regular army offi- 
cers, Colonel Charles R. Lowell, was constantly called upon 
for active service against the guerilla bands which infested the 
vicinity of Washington, and in the spring and early summer 
of 1864 met with considerable losses in killed, wounded, and 
prisoners. On the 6th of July a party of about one hundred 
of the regiment, under Major Forbes, were defeated in an 
encounter with Mosby's command, and the larger part of 
them killed or taken prisoners. Fox w^as in the ensfasfe- 
ment, and as in the rout the men were flying by different 
roads at utmost speed, his horse burst a blood-vessel in 
going down a precipitous descent, and pinned his rider 
under him. Chaplain Humphreys, from whom information 
concerning this atfair was obtained, was close behind Fox, 
and with his horse leaped over him as he lay in the road. 
As the chaplain looked back he heard Fox shout, "I surren- 
der!" and saw Mosby, or one of his men, shoot at him as 
he galloped past. When, after a few hours' hiding in the 
woods, the chaplain went back to look after the wounded, he 



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found Fox shot entirely through the abdomen, and with the 
help of a farmer of the vicinity took him to a neighboring 
house, where he died at about three o'clock of the morning 
of the 7th. Fox said that he was shot after he had surren- 
dered, and was extremely indignant at the outrage. He 
spoke a good deal about his family, and died quietly. "While 
Mr. Humphreys was digging the grave in an adjoining field, 
a guerilla took him prisoner, and refused him time to finish 
the burial. The farmer promised to complete the duty, and 
with this the chaplain was forced to be content. The body 
of Fox is not unlikely one of that multitude who lie on 
Arlington Heights, with the inscription, "Unknown Soldier," 
upon their head-boards. His age at the time of his death was 
about twenty-four years. 



THIED CAVALEY. 

John T Ayers ; born in Maine ; was a corporal of 

Co. C, 4th Massachusetts Militia, and served faithfully at 
Fortress Monroe and Newport News, fiom April 22 to July 
22, 18G1. Aug. 6, 1862, he enlisted with several other 
men from Braintree in a company wdiich was first attached 
to the 33d Infantry, was afterwards transferred to the 41st 
Infantry, and eventually became Co. K, of the 3d Cavalry. 
His service to June of 1863 was for a time iu Virginia, but 
with no fighting; thence, in the Department ol" the Gulf, 
where in all the duties of an infantry soldier in an unhealthy 
climate, with fatiguing labor of the march, the skirmish, and 
picket, he gained the highest confidence of his officers and 
the warm affection of all his companions. In June of 1863 his 
regiment became the 3d Cavalry, its members having previ- 
ously been allowed to become mounted riflemen, by providing 
themselves with horses from the surrounding country. On 



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the 27th of June he was taken prisoner near Baton Rouge, 
but was exchanged in a few weeks. Thereafter he wns 
steadily with his company on scouts and r.-dds, and in numer- 
o>is minor or severe lights. He was in the disastrous Red 
River expedition under General Banks, which liegan in the 
late winter of 1864, wdiere the regiment was often sharply en- 
gaged and constantly kept in wearisome action, meeting wnth 
heavy losses. At the close of this trying campaign in July 
of 1864, his regiment was converted again into infantry, and 
sent north to join General Sheridan's command in the Shenan- 
doah Valley of Virginia. Here he became first sergeant of 
his company. The story of Sheridan's brilliant operations in 
the fall of 1864 in that valley, which had so often been a 
valic}^ of humiliation to the Union armies, has been made 
familiar through the fame in song which has attached to 
Sheridan's ride from Winchester to the meeting of his some- 
what broken army on the 19th of October; how, on Sept. 
19, at Opequan Creek, he routed Early's force, with large 
cai)tures of artillery, battle-flags, and prisoners ; how he 
followed up his success three days after by another assault 
at Fisher's Hill, taking sixteen guns and many prisoners ; 
and how, on the 19th of October, when the flank of the 
Union army had been surprised in the morning twilight and 
the forces driven back disorganized for miles, he rode impet- 
uously on to the field to help turn the tide of disaster into a 
sweeping victory from which the enemy never rallied in that 
region, is all well known as one of the most satisfactory 
series of affairs in the course of the war. Sergeant Ayei s was 
at his post of duty in the battles of Opequan and Fisher's 
Creek, and when the surprise at Cedar Creek came was 
prompt in arms only to meet his death. He w^as struck in 
the abdomen about eight o'clock in the morning, and though 
begging to be left on the field, because he declared it useless 
for his men to try their strength by bearing him ofl', he was 



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carried to the hospital some miles in the rear, where he died 
in the conrse of the afternoon, possibly n<^'t before he had 
heard the glad tidings of victory. His age was about thirty- 
four. His body was brought to Braintree for burial. The 
tenderness and respect with which his name is universally 
mentioned b}' his comrades, indicate that he was a man 
worth}' to be long remembered as one who lent high honor 
to the town of his adoption. 

John Ferdinand Albee, son of John and Susan, was 
l)(>rn in Braintree. He enlisted at the age of sixteen as a 
recruit in Co. K, 3d Cavalry, on the 29th of February, 1864, 
and saw no active service, his regiment being in the field 
when he reached New Orleans. While waiting its return he 
contracted the prevailing disease of the region (chronic 
diarrhoea), which slew more men than shells or bullets, and 
died at Morganzia, La., on the 22d of June, 18(31. His age 
was about eisfhteen. 

Elisha Strong Bowditch, son of John and Euth G., 
was born in Braintree, Aug. 18, 1842 ; enlisted as a recruit 
in Co. K, 3d Cavalry, on the 7th of December, 1863, and in 
the following February was at New Ork-ans. A young man 
of delicate nurture and little accustomed to hardship, his first 
experiences of camp life were exceedingly trying to mind 
and body, and he was, in consequence, an easy victim to the 
malarious diseases of Louisiana, so that he saw but little 
active service. He was foi- a few months with his regiment 
in its encampment about New Orleans, doing the duty ac- 
cording to his ability, and on the 4th of August was admitted 
to the barracks hospital of that city, where he died of chronic 
diarrhoea on the 19th of September, 1864. His letters home 
are full of evidence of his high-toned principle and very af- 
fectionate nature. He was buried in New Orleans. 



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William Sanford Leach, son of Elbridge G. and Pauline, 
was born in New Portland, Me., Aug. 21, 1839. He was a 
dentist in South Braintree at the time of his enrolment, Aug. 
8, 1862 (enlisted in July), in the company with Sergeant 
Ayers, K, 3d Cavalry. He folhnved the course of his 
regiment in its brief Virginia duty and in its operations 
about New Orleans through the fall and winter of 18B2-3. 
His diary, kept to within two days of his death, contains an 
intelligent narrative of the life of a volunteer, with all its in- 
conveniences and its ready adaptation to strange conditions, 
besides giving an interesting view of the scouts and skir- 
mishes of the regiment on its movement towards Port Hud- 
son in the spring of 1863. At the close of that expedition, 
from which he had sutFered greatly through weakness, he 
was transferred to the Marine Hospital at New Orleans, 
where, on the night of Aug. 6, 1863, he died so quietly that 
his comrade in the next bed knew nothing of it till several 
hours after daylight. From the contents of his diary it is 
evident that he was a thoughtful and observing as Avell as 
conscientious man. His age at time of death was twenty- 
four (nearly). 

Edward Everett Patten, son of Eichard S. and Mary 
J., of South Amesbury, was born March 29, 1836, and was a 
harness-maker with Warren Mansfield at the time of his en- 
listment with the Braintree squad of Co. K, 3d Cavalry, on 
the 8th of August, 1862. Of the fidelity of his service in the 
Department of the Gulf, all could be said that has been 
attributed to his other comrades. Constantly Avith his com- 
pany, he was ever brave, patient of discomfort, and ready to 
endure, without murmur, more than his share of duty. He 
was in the battles of Opequan and Fisher's Hill, in the Shen- 
andoah Valley, and on the 19th of October, 186-4, went into 
the contest of Cedar Creek, though he was so sick that a less 



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couiageous aud energetic man would have been in the hos- 
pital ; but his place was iu the line, and there he received a 
wound in the left hip, from which he died Nov. 15, 1864, 
at Newton Barracks Hospital, Baltimore, at the age of 
twenty-nine (nearly). His conduct was an admirable ilkis- 
tration of the heroic virtues iu many a common obscure man, 
which ^vere brought into conspicuous lustre by the test 
of war. 

Ansel Penniman Thayer, son of Wm. Franklin and 
Esther j\f., enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, iu company with Ser- 
geant Ayers aud others. He Avas uniformly with his regi- 
ment through the campaigns which have been enumerated. 
He is rei)orted to have been neither sick nor wounded until 
the day of his death, which occurred at the battle of Opequau 
or Winchester, on the 19th of September, 1864, where, in 
the tir.^t fight of the regiment in that vicinity, he was shot 
through the abdomen, being among the earliest injured. He 
died in a few hours at the field hospital, at the age of twenty 
years. The simple but sufficient encomium of his comrades 
is that he was a good soldier. 

John Francis Wilde, son of Elishaand Caroline (Hoaley), 
was born in Braintree, Dec. 28, 1819, and was in Co. B, 
43d (nine months) Infantry, from Oct. 29, 1862, to July 
30, 1863. When, during this service, the 44th Massa- 
chusetts was besieged in Washington, N. C, he was one 
of a few who volunteered to carry provisions to them under 
considerable risk, aud was, with the rest, complimented 
b}' General Spinola for the skill and bravery shown On 
this occasion. On the following Dec. 26, 1863, he enlisted 
as a recruit in Co. K, 3d Cavalry, and was steadily with the 
regiment, an efficient soldier, until the time of his death. 
He was engaged iu the Red River campaign, and on the 8th 



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of April, 18G4, while the army was iii retreat, had a leg 
carried away by a shell at Sabiue Cross Roads, La., from the 
effects of which he very soon died. His intimate companion 
attended him nntil the near approach of the enemy, when he 
was left on the field. In March of 1870 the parents of Mr. 
Wilde received a note from Merrill Johnson, formerly of the 
23d Wisconsin Infantry, announcing that he had in his pos- 
session a ring with Wilde's name upon it, which had been 
given to him by a rebel prisoner captured the day after the 
battle, who said he had taken it from a dead Union soldier, 
and this ring his family now have ; it being one which he had 
had made when he joined the 43d Regiment, Avith his name 
and residence stamped upon it. Mr. Wilde was forty-four 
years old at the time of his last enlistment, and was there- 
fore past the age when he would be actuated by mere 
impulse ; but he was a man of warm patriotic feeling, and 
believed that, having no wife or children, he could better 
respond to the needs of the hour than many a younger man. 
He lind considerable knowledge of the world, acquired 
through travel, and much of the handiness which from the 
beginning characterized the Massachusetts soldiers, so that he 
was often of great service to his comrades in the minor duties 
of the camp and march, especially in making them comfort- 
able in times of privation or sickness, his experience being 
supplemented by a kindly and generous heart. His loss 
was sincerely mouined by all who had known him. 

Garrett George Barry, son of Richard and Mary, of 
Holin'ook, enlisted Dec. 13, 1861, at the age of seventeen, 
in what was for some time known as the 3d Unattached 
Company of Cavalry, Captain Co wen, which was in service 
in Louisiana until June of 1863, when it became Co. M, 3d 
Massachusetts Cavalry. Notwithstanding his youth, Barry 
was soon made a corporal, and for his bravery in an attack 



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upon the camp of the 4th Mississippi Cavalry, in January of 
1863, was presented with one of the trophies of the capture, 
a fine spy-glass, on which were engraved some words of 
high commendation from Lieutenant Perkins, his commander. 
Later, he became n sergeant, and while acting in that capa- 
city at the attack of Sabine Cross Eoads, La., in which his 
last efforts were to keep his men from breaking ranks, in 
some disorganization, he was shot in the head and instantly 
killed. A letter received by his parents from his company 
co:nmander spoke in terms <>f strong praise concerning his 
soldierly qualities. 



FOURTH CAVALRY. 

Alvin Jackson, son of George and Hannah, was born in 
Readticld, Me., and according to the books of the Adjutant- 
General, enlisted in Co. H of the 1st Cavalry on the 12th of 
October, 18G1, and was discharged Jan. 10, 1863. Jan. 9, 
1864, he enlisted in Co. D of the 4th Cavalry, and was 
stationed, for the remainder of his service, in South Carolina. 
The reports of the manner of his death state that on the 15th 
of January, 1865, he, with several men of his company, 
w^as sent with despatches, and the squad, being attacked by 
the enemy, became divided. Jackson was seen by one of 
his companions to fall from his horse ; and as nothing more 
was ever heard from him, the presumption is that he was 
killed. His age was about thirty-eight years. 



NINTH INFANTRY. 



CoRXKLius FuRFr (or Furphey) w^as born in Armagh, 
Ireland, about 1840, and was an employee of the Boston 
Flax Mills, at East Braintree, when he enlisted in Co. G, 9th 



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Massachusetts Infantry, on the 11th of June, 1861. His regi- 
ment was under McClellan in the peninsular campaign of 
1862, being slightly engaged in the affair of Hanover Court 
House, jNfay 27, and in the engagement near Mechanicsville, 
June 26, and losing heavily in the battle of Gaines' Mill, June 
27, and at Malvern Hill, July 1. In this latter battle, Furfy 
was mortally wounded. His brother, of the same company, 
while carrying him to the rear, was- also wounded, and com- 
pelled to leave his charge upon the field, which w^as soon 
occupied by the enemy. His age, at the time of death, was 
about twenty-two. 



TWELFTH EEGIMENT. 

Francis W. Kahle, born in Germany, was an operative 
at HoUingsworth's paper-mill, and was drafted under tlie 
call of July, 1863. July 19 he was mustered into Co. C, of 
the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, at the age of forty, accord- 
ing to the records. He died in the regimental hospital, at 
Cnlpepper, Va., of pneumonia, March 6, 1864. His captain, 
F. B. Pratt, of Weymouth, writes that "he was a good sol- 
dier, was always on duty in camp and field, until his last 
sickness, and was highly esteemed by his comrades." The 
regiment was engaged in no battle during his service. 



TWENTIETH I:N'FAXTRY. 

Thomas John Ckowell, son of George and Jane, w^as 
born in Horton, Nova Scotia, April 15, 1829, from whence 
he came to Braintree. He Avas ardently interested in the 
anti-slavery cause, and was largely influenced by this zeal in 
his enlistment. He served in Co. C, 4th Militia, from April 
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to July of 18fil, and speedily rc-enlisted, joining Co. K, of 
tlio 20th Infantry, Aug. 21, 1861, in which he was Liter a 
corporal. The 20th was one of the most excellent regiments 
in the service, and was consequent!}- often placed at danger- 
ous posts. It was involved in the disastrous aflfjur of Ball's 
Bluff, on the 22d of October, 1861, in w^hich a few Union 
regiments, attacked by a superior force of the enemy, were 
compelled to tight with the Potomac River at their backs, and 
by shooting, drowning, and capture w^ere nearly destroyed. 
Early in 1862 it joined McClellan's army on the Peninsula, 
where Crovvell participated in an affair with the enemy at 
West Point, Va., in the battle of Fair Oaks, on the 31st of 
May, and in the engagement of Nelson's Farm, June 30. 
The steady picket and fatigue duty of that season, through 
the mud and swamps of Williamsburg, the Chickahominy, 
and the White Oak, were a harder trial of the metal of men 
than even the frequent fighting. Thousands were overcome 
by this unwonted exposure, and filled the hospitals with sick 
and the swamps with graves ; and the ranks of the 20th were 
reduced in common with those of other regiments, its men 
being often without tents and sometimes destitute of blankets. 
Through this campaign Crowell survived to enter into the 
great struggle of Antietam, Maryland, Sept. 17, 1862, after 
whose success for the Union arms he marched to Falmouth, 
on the banks of the Rappahannock River, where the winter 
found his regiment confronting Lee's army in Fredericksburg, 
on the opposite side of the stream. On the 12th of Decem- 
ber General Buruside, then commanding the army, proposed 
to attack Lee, but was prevented from laying one of the pon- 
toon bridges necessary for the crossing by the annoying fire 
of rebel sharpshooters, who were secreted in the brick houses 
of Fredericksburg. The task of clearing the way of these 
sharpshooters was assigned to HalTs Brigade, to which the 
20th belonged, and passing the river in small boats they, by 



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a gallant surprise, accomplished the work; but tlie enemy, 
reinforced, soon rallied in one of the main streets, which 
ran parallel to the Rappahannock, from which the 20th was 
ordered to dislodge them. In column by company it marched 
up the street, with musketry pouring upon it on every side, 
from celUir and garret, but not flinching till it had attained 
its pui'pose. Crowell escaped all injury here; but the next 
afternoon, the 13th, the brigade Avas ordered to the still more 
formidalile work of attacking rifle-pits, held by a strong line 
of infantry and covered by numerous artillery. On the 
double-quick they moved to their duty, met by tremendous 
volleys of musketry and a storm of canister and shell, till 
human nature could bear no more, and they fell back under 
cover. Only four of Co. K were left, and Crowell was not 
of these. In a few hours he crawled into his regimental 
lines with a mortal w^ound in his left breast near the heart, 
and with another bullet in his thiijh. That ni^ht he died in 
hospital, couscious and cheerful, his last words beiug of his 
family. "Tell them," he said, "that they have the consola- 
tion of knowing that my life was oflered for the good of the 
country." Lieutenant Eopes, commanding the company, 
sjioke of his behaving iu the fight " with his usual iutrepid- 
ity " ; and Sergeant Clark said, " He was always in his place, 
and 1)rave as a lion." No man ever more completely vindi- 
cated his political principles by heroic deeds and death than 
did Corporal Crowell. 



TWENTY-SECOI^D INFAKTRY. 

Three men from Braintree, in this regiment, lost their lives 
iu the same battle, viz., Crickmay, Fogg, and Dalton. 

Charles Henry Crickmay, son of Robert and Elizabeth, 
of Englaud, enlisted at the age of thirty-four in the Quiucy 



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Co. H, of the 4th Militia (the company from Braintree 
being full), and served from April to July of 1861. On the 
6th of September, 1861, ho enlisted in Co. I, of the 22d In- 
fantry, then called Senator Wilson's regiment, and with it 
joined McClellan's army on the Peninsula. He saw no 
fighting of consequence till the 27th of June, 1862, when oc- 
curred the severe battle of Gaines' Mill, in which 70,000 
Confederates under Stonewall Jackson attacked 30,000 Union 
troops, and threw back in disaster the right flank of Mc- 
Clellan's army. The 22d loi^t very heavily here, and with 
the rest of the Union regiments left its killed and wounded in 
the enemy's hands. Crickmay Avas wounded in the thigh, 
and being taken to Richmond, underwent an amputati{m, from 
which he died June 30, 1862. He was a brave man, of gen- 
erous impulses. He had the rank of corporal. His body 
was never recovered. 

Alexander Reshaw Fogg, son of Seth and Betsy, of 
Denmark, Maine, also enlisted in Co. I, of the 22d, on the 
15th of September, 1861, as a teamster, but was afterwards 
transferred to the ranks. He was one of the wounded at 
Gaines' Mills, and was undoubtedly buried by the enemy. 
His age was thirty-nine. His body was not recovered. 

Jeremiah Dalton, 2d, son of Tristam and Ann, was in 
Co. G, Fifth Militia, which was in the first battle of Bull 
Run, his service being from May 1 to July 31, 1861. He 
enlisted again Oct. 1, 1861, in Co. E of the 22d, was made 
a corporal, and was killed at Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862, at 
the age of twentj'-one. His body was left on the field. 



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TWENTY-FOURTH I>s"FANTRr. 

Daniel Austin Thayer, son of Gideon aiicl Sarah H., 
at the age of twentj^-three enlisted, July 2S, 1862, from 
Gloucester, iu Co. C of the 24th Infantry, and died of 
chronic diarrhoea in hospital at Hilton Head, S. C, Jan. 4, 
1864. His regiment was, during the time when he belonged 
to it, with General Gilmore at Morris Island, near Charleston, 
protecting the siege operations. 

AYiLLiAM Martin Harmon, sou of William and Hannah, 
enlisted on the 13th of November, 1861, at the age of 
eighteen, in Co. G, 24th Massachusetts Inftintry. He was 
with the regiment in the battle of Roanoke Island, in Feb- 
ruary, 1862, one of the first Union successes, in which 
Burnside captured some 1,500 prisoners ; was at the battle 
near Newbern, N. C, on the following 14th of March, and 
thence in sundr}^ affairs at AVashington, N. C, at Kingston, 
and at Whitehall. He left his regiment in the spring of 
1863, and died in hospital at Newbern, of chronic diarrhoea, 
April 30, 1863. 



TWEIsTTY-EIGHTH IN^FANTRY. 

Lawrence McLaughlin, born in Ireland, was a resident 
of Braintree, and in the latter part of 1861, at the age of 
eighteen, enlisted in Co. I, 28th Infantry. He re-enlisted 
as a veteran Jan. 1, 1864. His friends state that he Avas 
steadily with his regiment from his enrolment to the day of 
his death, with the exception of a three days' absence, on 
account of a wound in the head, and a short furlough in the 
winter of 1863, which he passed in Braintree. The 28th 
had a varied experience. It was, at first, on duty in South 



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Carolina, having left Massachusetts Jan. 11, 1862 ; was in 
several skirmishes there, and in an attack upon Fort John- 
son ; thence in Virginia, was at the second battle of Bull 
liun, with considerable loss, and at Chantilly ; was active at 
Antietam ; suffered at Fredericksburg; was slightly engaged 
at Chancellorsville, and heavily again at Gettysburg; was 
conspicuous in Meade's campaign of Mine Run, in the fall of 
1863 ; and in 1864 was in the battles of the Wilderness, 
of Spotsylvania, of Cold Harbor, and in the siege of Peters- 
burg. On the 22d of June, after McLaughlin had passed 
unhurt through a sharp skirmish with the enemy, he was 
sent on picket in the evening, and was soon shot dead. His 
body was not recovered. 

Charles Gray was probably a substitute, and not a resi- 
dent of the town, at the time of his enlistment. The slight 
facts known about him are drawn from the Adjutant-General's 
records. He enlisted in Co. D, 28th Infantry, Aug. 10, 
1863, and died in a Southern prison Sept. 15, 1864. The 
career of his reoriment has been mentioned in connection 
with McLaughlin's name. In all likelihood. Gray was cap- 
tured in one of the l)attles under General Grant iu the 
summer of 1864. 

Amos Atkins Loring, Co. B, 28th Infantry, son of Ben- 
jamin J. and Elizabeth, enlisted Jan. 5, 1864, at the age of 
eighteen, was made a drummer, and died of disease at 
City Point, Virginia, at a date unknown. 



THIKTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 

First Sergeant Loring Winthrop Thayer, son of Ansel 
and Sarah (Arnold), was a member of Co. C, of the 4th 



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Massachusetts Militia, and served with his regiment at 
Fort4-ess Monroe and Newport News, Va., from April to 
July of 1861. In December of that year he enlisted again 
in the fompany raised by Captain C. C. Bumpus, which, for 
a time, was in garrison at Foi t Warren until it became Co. E, 
of the 32d Infantry, — a three years' regiment, — and was 
ordered to Washington in May, 1862. On the 3d of Jnl}^ 
the regiment joined McClellau's army at Harrison's Landing, 
on James River. From that time forward, Sergeant Thayer 
was constantly with his regiment in active service, never 
absent from sickness nor receiving any wounds till the day 
of his death. He was, with his company, in reserve at 
Chautilly and Antietam in September, and was engaged at 
Fredericksburg in December of 1862. In the following 
spring, he was in the campaign of Chancellorsville, and in 
July of 1863 at Gettysburg, where his regiment met with 
heavy loss. The severe fall and winter campaign of General 
Meade at Mine Run and on the line of the Orange and 
Alexandria Railroad tried the endurance of the regiment as 
well as proved Sergeant Thayer's faithfulness. When Grant 
began the march upon Richmond in the spring of 1864, 
wdiich was to result in the long list of terrible battles and of 
picket skirmishes almost as deadly as battles, which was 
not to end until the surrender of Lee, the 32d entered 
upon the active duties of the field, losing heavily in 
the Wilderness, being under constant vigilance at Spotsyl- 
vania, then slightly engaged at the North Anna River, and 
again and again at Mechanicsville, at Bethesda Church, and 
at Petersljurg and the Weldon Railroad. So wasting was 
this summer upon the regiment, that the 30th of September 
found Sergeant Thayer in command of his company, which 
was without a commissioned officer when it was ordered to 
an assault upon Fort McRae, of the Petersburg line, where, 
in what is variously known as the ajQTair of Peebles Farm or 
Poplar Grove Church, he received the fatal shot. A warm, 



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synipathotic letter from his surviving company comrades, sent 
to his parents under date of Oct. 20, 1864, testified to his 
great popularity as au associate and to his high, soldierly 
qnalities. He was thoroughly brave and nobly patriotic. 
He re-enlisted for three years in January of 1864, and on 
his return from furlough received his promotion from 
sergeant to first sergeant. His old company commander 
bears witness that "he was one of the best men in the 
service, — trust}', faithful to all orders, and brave to a fault." 
His age at death was twenty-four. 

Leonard F. Huff, son of Benjamin and , at the age 

of twenty-one enlisted in Co. E, 32d Infantry, Dec. 2, 1861, 
and after a short service in the forts of Boston Harbor, w^eut 
with his regiment, in the summer of 1862, to McClellan's army, 
which had just passed through its seven days' battles on the 
Virginia peninsula. While lying at Harrison's Landing, on 
the James River, he was attacked vviih disease, and was sent 
to hospital at Philadelphia, where he died, Aug. 23, 1862. 
His comrades report him to have been an exemplary soldier. 

Heney T. Wade, parentage not ascertained, enlisted at 
the age of twenty-seven, in Co. E, 32d Infantry, on the 25th 
of November, 1861, was mustered Dec. 2, 1861, and was 
killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. His regi- 
ment was active in the battle of Fredericksburg, was slightly 
engaged at Chancellorsville, and lost heavil}' at Gettysburg, 
where he died. 

Anthony Columbus, who was probably a substitute, 
appears to have enlisted in Co. K of the 9th Regiment, 
Aug. 22, 1863, and when that regiment was mustered out 
of service w^as, with other men whose terms were unexpired, 
transferred to Co. I of the 32d Infantry, of which he was a 
member when he died, at time and place unknown. 



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THIETY-THIRD IN^rANTRY. 



First Lieutenant and Brevet-Captain Elgar Lewis Bmipus, 
son of Cephas C. and Amelia D., born in North Bridgewater, 
Jan. 18, 1838, was a meml)er of his father's company, C, of 
the 4th Militia, in 18G1, and while his regiment was lying at 
Newport News, Va., in June, was one of two or three men 
who, desirous of varying the monotony of camp life, volun- 
teered to join the troops which were going to Big Bethel, 
where his clothes were perforated by a bullet. On the 13th 
of the Septemljer following his return he joined ]MePherson's 
company of United States Sappers and Miners at Fort Inde- 
pendence, Boston Harbor, from which he was discharged for 
disability. May IG, 1862. He again enlisted, Aug. 5, 1862, 
in Co. A, 33d Massachusetts Infantry, and was mustered as 
corporal, but in a few wrecks became sergeant, and was 
transferred to Co. E. He was commissioned as second 
lieutenant, June 20, 1863, as first lieutenant, March 9, 1864, 
and, after his death, had his merit recognized by a brevet of 
captain, dated May 22, 1865. To the fall of 1863 the 33d 
Regiment was in Virginia, in the 11th Corps, but was not 
involved in the rout at Chancellorsville, which gave that 
corps such a bad name. It was one of a few picked regi- 
ments sent to support the cavalry at the contest of Beverly 
Ford on the 9th of June, 1863, and was in the most fearful . 
and exposed pait of the battle-field of Gettysburg, July 3, 
at Cemetery Hill, where for three hours one hundred and 
fift}'-five Confederate guns rained a storm of shot and shell, 
largely concentrated upon this key-point of the field. In 
both of these affairs Bumpus was the color-sergeant, the 
well-known position of honor and of imminent danger. In 
the fall of 1863, the 33d was sent under General Hooker to 
Rosecrans' Army of the Cumberland, and on the 28th of 



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October was engngetl in "a brave and victorious midnight 
assault upon a division of the enemy near the base of Look- 
out Mountain, at Wauhatchie. At the opening of Sherman's 
campaign against Atlanta, in the spring of 1864, the regi- 
ment was in Butterfield's third division of the 20th Corps, but 
had no engagement till the battle of Resaca, Ga., on Sunday, 
May 15, when it was ordered to assault the enemy's works 
upon a hill strongly protected by abattis and underbrush. 
Bumpus was temporarily in command of the color company, 
as first lieutenant, and while his command was in some slight 
confusion, owing to difficulties of manoeuvring, he stepped 
before them with the encouragement, " Boys, stand by your 
colors ! " and Avas almost immediately shot through the head. 
His age was tweutj'-four. His remains lie in the National 
Cemetery at Chattanooga. The writer of this account fre- 
quently saw him in the spring of his death, and talked with 
him but a few hours before his last fight. He was uniformly 
in good spirits and imbued with a right patriotism. The ex- 
cellence of his standing in his regiment is testified to by the 
nature of the duties and honors so many times laid upon 
him. His loss was profoundly regretted in his regiment by 
men who had known his fidelity in many a trying responsi- 
bility, and was soriowed over by man}'' at home besides his 
kindred who remembered him as an earnest, generous, and 
high-minded young man. 

Timothy Horace Cain, son of Ehodes and Louisa (Hol- 
brook), joined Co. K of the 33d Innmtry at the time of its 
formation, Aug. 8, 1862, and followed the career of that 
regiment through Virginia, at Gettysburg, at Lookout Moun- 
tain, at Resaca, and as far towards Atlanta as the battle of 
Dallas, on the 25th of May, 1864, where he was slightly 
wounded. Being sent to hospital at Louisville, Ky., he 
never returned to his company, but died a year later at Alex- 



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aiulria, Va. , July 7, 1865, of chronic diarrhoea. Down to 
the time of his wound he was never reported absent, and 
always bore the reputation of a good soldier. His reported 
age at enlistment was twenty-one. 



THIRTY-SIXTH INFANTRY. 

Daniel W. Dean, at the age of nineteen, enlisted Aug. 8, 
1862, in Co. K, 36th Infantry, and is reported to have died 
in the same year, probably from disease. 

Seth Dean, possibly a brother of the above, at the .'ige of 
twenty-four enli.-<ted in the same company, under the same 
date, and died at Windmill Point Hospital, Va., near Acquia 
Creek, Jan. 27, 1863. Concerning the identity and origin 
of these men, there is some uncertainty. A Seth Dean was 
in Co. A, 1st Battalion Heavy Artillery, and was discharged 
for disability July 20, 1862. Perhaps they were the same, 
though the records of age differ by ten years. 



THIRTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. 

Edward David, son of Lyman and Lavinia, of Venice, 
N. Y., was enrolled August 13, 1862, in Co. K of the 38th 
Infantry, and was killed June 14, 1863, at Port Hudson, La. 
His regiment was in the 19th Corps, Emery's Division, Gen- 
eral Banks's army. It was engaged in an affair with the enemy 
at Fort Bisland, in the Teche country, where it met with 
some loss, and was in the siege of Port Hudson. The bri- 
gade to which it belonged made an ineffectual assault upon 
some rebel works at the latter place, on the 14th of June, 



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and was compelled to lie under cover of bushes and earth- 
works until darkness should enable it to retreat. Edward, 
leaving his equipments, took a canteen to go to the rear for 
water, determined to run the risk for his pressing need, and 
was never again seen by his brother Solon, who was in the 
company with him. The Pioneer Corps described one like 
him who was shot through the head while going for water, 
and his fate was thus pretty conclusively established. His 
body was not recovered. Old associates remember him as a 
pleasant and amiable young man. 



THIKTY-XIJs^TH INFAXTKY. 

James Banxon, born in Ireland, enlisted in Co. G, 39th 
Infantry, in August or September (Sept. 2, Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's records), 1862, at the age of thirty-eight. The lirst 
battles of the regiment were in Grant's campaign of 1864, 
where its losses were small, until it reached Petersburg. 
Bannon was, however, slightly wounded in the battle of the 
Wilderness, but continued in the field. At the battle of 
Weldon Railroad, on the 19th of August, 1864, nearly the 
whole of the 39th was captured, and Bannon, among them, 
was taken to Salisbury Prison, where he remained six 
months, being released in February, 1865. The hardships 
of the prison wore greatly upon him, although the severity 
of the confinement was mitigated by his being assigned to 
duty in the hospital cook-house of the prison. His death, 
which occurred at his home in Braintree on the 27th of 
March, 1865, was accelerated by the prison experience, 
together with the accidental use of some poisonous medi- 
cine in the hospital after his release. 



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FOETY-SECONT) I^^FANTRY (100 DAYS). 

Henry Winslow Dean, son of Horatio and Melinda, was 
born in Braiutree, May 4, 1832, and was in Co. C of the 4th 
Militia from April to Jnly of 1861. Jnly 19, 1864, he joined 
the company of one hundred days' men from Braintree, 
which was assigned to the 42d Regiment, and did duty in 
the fortifications of Washington. He died in Sickles s Bar- 
racks Hospital, Alexandria, of chronic diarrhoea, Oct. 9, 
1864. Although by no means strong at the time of his 
enlistment, he was eager to be with his old associates and do 
his part of the required service. 



SECON'D LOUISIANA (COLOEED) IXFANTEY. 

Ebenezer Coddington Thayer, Jr., son of Ebenezer C. 
and Sarah Jackson, at the age of twenty-four enlisted in 
Co. K of the 31st Massachusetts Infantry, under date of 
Jan. 29, 1862, and became a corporal. His regiment was 
in the Department of the Gulf, when General Butler gave him 
the warrant of sergeant-major of the 2d Louisiana Colored 
Infantry, in which he was subsequently commissioned as 
second lieutenant. He served in the siege of Port Hudson 
and in the Red River expedition, during the last part of 
which he was wounded in the left lung while, as acting 
adjutant, he was quelling a disturbance among some of his 
soldiers. He died from hemorrhage in the St. James 
Hospital at New Orleans on the 14th of April, 1864. After 
his body had laid embalmed in the undertaker's rooms for 
more than a year, it was sent North, and lies in the cemetery 
at Braintree. His familiar neighbors speak of him as a 
young man of uncommonly high character. 



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THIRD MARYLAND INFANTRY. 

John Finnigan, son of James aud Catherine, Avas a mem- 
ber of Co. C, 4th Mihtia, from April to July 22, 18(31. In 
February of 1862, persons representing themselves as re- 
cruiting officers for Maryland regiments persuaded thirty or 
forty men from Massachusetts to go with them to Maryhmd, 
aud there left them to shift for themselves. Finnigan among 
these, with one or two other Braiutree men, enrolled himself 
in the 3d Maryland Infantry, which eventually belonged to 
the 2d Brigade, 2d division of the 12th Corps. He died of 
chronic diarrhoea in the regimental hospital of Acquia Land- 
ing, March 12, 1863, at the age of twenty. A letter from 
his captain (Charles G. Downs, Co. B) says he had been 
complaining for six months. 



TWENTY-FIFTH NEW YORK INFANTRY. 

Thomas Smith, corporal of Co. H, enlisted May 13, 1861, 
in this regiment, under Colonel James E. Kerrigan. He is 
reported to have been wounded in the affair of Hanover Court 
House, May 27, 1862, and to have died a few weeks later 
near Gaines' Mill, Viro-iuia. 



SEVENTIETH NEW YORK. 

In the summer of 1861, when the general government was 
undecided concerning its powers of raising troops, and 
seemed little to appreciate the magnitude of the impending 
danger, the raisino: of more than six regiments was discour- 
aged in Massachusetts, despite Governor Andrew's vigorous 



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protest, so that some companies, already formed, received 
permission to join New York regiments. To one of these 
companies belonged three men from Braintree, two Bunkeis 
and Parker, who were assigned to the so-called Mozart Bri- 
gade nnder Daniel Sickles, then being oiganized at Staten 
Jshind, New York. 

Levi Bunker, son of Nahnm nnd Irene, born Jan. 1, 1840, 
enlisted June 20, 18G1, in Captain Bugbee's company, which 
became a part of Colonel Wm. D wight Jr.'s regiment, the 
Seventieth New York, of Sickles's Brigade. He was guai ding 
the Lower Potomac until May, of 18G2, when he joined Mc- 
Clellan on the Peninsula, and on the 5th of that month was 
engaged in the severe battle of Williamsburgh, 'where he 
was taken prisoner. His confinement was short, but he had 
a taste of the hard treatment and low diet with which uidiappy 
prisoners afterward became sadly familar, for he spoke of 
his food for the three days' march to Richmond as being a pint 
of meal each day, cooked in the ashes. When released he 
came home on furlough, and returned to join in the battle of 
Fredericksburg in December, 1862, and of Chancellorsville 
in ^lay, 1863, where, through extreme exposure and exhaus- 
tion, he contracted the disease from which he died at Wash, 
ingtou, June 16, 1863, at the age of twenty-three years. 
His body is in the soldiers' cemetery at Arlington Heights, 
Virginia. 

Edward Silas Bunker, brother of Levi, born Oct. 13, 
1844, enlisted July 13, 1861, in the same company and 
regiment. He lost his shoes in the mud, the night before 
Williamsburg, and so fought barefoot all day through the 
rain, and was wounded in the left arm and taken prisoner, 
his wound not being dressed for three days. This undue 
ex[)osuie and privation planted the seeds of the fever of 



which he died at home, while on furlough, Sept. 11, 1SG2. 
He is buried in South Braintree. 

Alfred Emmons Parker, a cousin of the Bunkers, son of 
Tliomas and Esther, born Oct. 21, 1842, enlisted July 15, 
1861, in the same company and reuiment with his cousins, 
and was mortally wounded on the 5th of May, 18()2, at the 
battle of Williamsburg, in wiiich his captain was killed and 
his colonel was dangerously wounded. His cousin was 
allowed to bear him to the rear, but soon left him, and the 
place of his l)urial is unknown. 

These young men were all of excellent habits and character. 



EIGHTH VERMONT INFANTRY. 

Benjamin Franklin Arnold, son of Benjamin and Re- 
becca, was born in Randolph, Mass., March 30, 183<), and 
enlisted from Randolph, Vt., where he was temporarily 
residing, in Co. F, of the 12th Vermont, a nine months' 
regiment. He was enrolled Oct. 4, 1862, and was mustered 
out July 21, 1863. In the following December (^^), he 
enlisted in the 8th Vermont, a three years' regiment, and 
was mustered Jan. 6, 1864, and was with his regiment in 
the Gulf Department till its transfer to the Shenandoah 
Valley, with the 19th Corps, in the summer of 1864. On 
the march through Maryland he received a sunstroke, which 
kept him in the hospital at Baltimore a few weeks, but he 
rejoined the regiment in the valley, where he was taken 
prisoner on the morning of the battle of Cedar Creek, 
Oct. 19, 1864, while venturing on a foraging expedition too 
far into the enemy's lines. He died in Salisbury Prison, 
Dec. 29, 1864, one of that great company of martyrs who 
met the most cruel of deaths in the war. 



SEVENTEENTH VEKMONT. 

Nelson Arnold, son of Benjamin and Rebecca, born in 
Randolph, Sept. 5, 1840, was also a resident of Randolph, 
Vt., when, with his brother, he joined the nine months' 
12th Vermont Infantry, Co. F, Oct. 18, 18G2. On the 29th 
of September, 1863, he was enrolled in Co. D, 17th Ver- 
mont, and entered the 9th Corps. His regiment was actively 
engaged with this corps of General Burnside's in the battles of 
1864, under General Grant, losing steadily; but Arnold is 
reported to have been uninjnred down to the time when ho 
was placed in the dangerous works before Petersbnrg, where, 
on the 19th of June, 1864, he was shot through the head by 
a sharp-shooter. He was buried in Virginia. 



NAVY. 

Paul Nadell enlisted, at the age of thirt}^ in Co. C, 14th 
j\Iass. Infautr}', on the 5th of July, 1861, and served credit- 
ably after its change to artillery. He re-enlisted as a veteran 
Feb. 1, 1864, and was discharged for transfer to the United 
States Navy on the 13th of April, 1864. He died in this 
arm of the service, at a date not ascertained. A lieutenant 
of his company of artillery praises him as having been a 
prompt and reliable soldier. 

Note. — The name of Richard Furf}', 9th Infantry, appears upon the 
Soldiers' Mounment as killed in battle. Fiu-f)- was not killed, though the 
printed register of the adjutant-general of IMassachusetts so declares, 
but was oulj' wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, in May, 1804, and 
was mustered out of service in Boston, June 21, 1804. These facts the 
writer had from Furfy's own lips. 

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APPENDIX I. 



A List of Officers and Enlisted Men of United States 
Volunteers from Braintree, in the Years 1861 to 1865. 

This list is mainly drawn from the printed records of the Massachu- 
setts Adjutant-General's office, corrected by a record of the men 
accredited to the quota of the town, kept by Elias Hay ward, Esq., 
formerly town clerk. 

It cannot claim to he free from errore or omissions. Many names 
are variously spelled in the public registers, and not improbably some 
enlistments in regiments out of the State are unrecorded in either of 
the above-mentioned official lists. 

The men of the three yeare' regiments are mentioned first, the 
officers being placed in order of rank and seniority of commission; and 
Avhere service has been performed in several commands, the names are 
repealed. 

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. 

THREE years' REGIMENTS. 

Warren INI. Babbitt, Surgeon 103d U. S. Colored Troops, March 7, 1805; Assistant 

Surgeon 55th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 11, 1863. Mustered ont, April 30, ISfiG. 
Cephas C. Bumpus, Captain 32d Infantry, Dec. 7, 1861, to April 20, 1863; Captain 

3d Heavy Artillery, Sept. 1, 1863, to Jan. 10, 1865. 
George A. Thayer, Captain 2d Infantry, July 26, 186.3, to July 14, 18()5; 1st 

Lieutenant, March 30, 1863; 2d Lieutenant, Oct. 16, 1862. 
Norman F. Steele, Captain 32d Infantry, Sept. 29, 1863, to Dec. 5, 1864; 1st 

Lieutenant, Oct. 21, 1862; 2d Lieutenant, Aug. 14, 1862. 
Edgar L. Bumpus, Brevet-Captain .33d Infantry, May 22, 1865; Ist Lieutenant, 

March 9, 1864; 2d Lieutenant, June 20, 1863. Killed in battle, May 15, 18lU. 
Everett C. Bumpus, 1st Lieutenant 3d Heavy Artillery, Oct. 28, 1864, to Sept. 18, 

1865; 2d Lieutenant, Sept. 1, 1863. 
Edward H. Melius, 1st Lieutenant 3d Heavy Artillery, June 13, 1S05, to Sept. 18, 

1865; 2d Lieutenant, May 28, 1864. 



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Richard M. Sanborn, 1st Lieutenant 3d Cavalry (coinpliraeutarjO, to date from 

Oct. 5, 1865; 2d Lieutenant, from Aug. 17, 1865. Mustered out as 1st Sergeant, 

Sept. 28, 1865. 
Theodore C. Howe, l.st Lieutenant .3d Cavalry (complimentary), to date from 

Oct. 5, 18G5. Mustered out as Quartermaster-Sergeant, Sept. 28, 1865. 
James B. Leonard, 2d Lieutenant 32d Infantry, Nov. 29, 1862, to Jan. 1, 1863. 
Ebenezer C. Tlrayer, Jr., 2d Lieutenant 2d Louisiana Infantry, from . 

Died, April 14, 1864. 
Marcus M. Pool, 2d Lieutenant 1st Heavy Artillery, Oct. 6, 1864, to May 15, 1865. 



COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. 

VOLUNTEER MILITIA. 

Cephas C. Bumpus, Captain Co. C, 4th Infantry (3 months), April 22 to July 22, 

1861. 
James T. Stevens, Captain Co. I, 42d Infantry (100 days), July 19 to Nov. 11, 1864; 

1st Lieutenant Co. C, 4th Infantry, April 22 to July 22, 1861. 
Isaac P. Fuller, 2d Lieutenant Co. C, 4th Infantry, April 22 to July 22, 1861. 
John C. Sanborn, 2d Lieutenant Co. B, 43d Infantry (9 months), Oct. 11, 1862, to 

July 30, 1863. 
Charles A. Arnold, 2d Lieutenant Co. I, 42d Infantry (100 days), July 19 to 

Nov. 11, 1864. 



ENLISTED MEN. 

N. B. — Where the name of a soldier is followed by the name of some other 
town than Braintree, it is to be understood that such town eventually claimed tlie 
man as properly belonging to it. 



Co. C, Uh M. V. M., from April 22 to 
July 22, 1861. 

"Wm. M. Ricliards, 1st Sergeant. 

Joseph L. Frazier, Sergeant. 

Andrew G. King, Sergeant. 

Edgar L. Bumpus, Sergeant. 

Samuel M. Hollis, Corporal. 

Reuben F. Hollis, Corporal. 

John T. Ayers, Corporal. 

John C. Sanborn, Corporal. 

Cliarles A. Arnold. 

Marcus P. Arnold. 

James T. Bestick. 

John E. Boyle. 

Everett C. Bumpus. 

Jno. R. Carmichael. 

Jno. Coughlan. 

Chandler Cox. 

Nelson Cox. 

Marcus F. Cram. 

Thomas J. Crowell. 

Wm. Cunningham. 

Wm. A. Daggett. 



Solon David. 
Henry W. Dean. 
James Donahoe. 
Peter Donahoe. 
Lawrence A. Dyer, 
Alpheus Field. 
John Finnegan. 
Roland E. Foster. 
Wm. B. Foster. 
Nathan T. Freeman. 
Henry W. Gammons. 
Charles Gilford. 
Joseph E. Holbrook. 
George F. Howard. 
Thomas Houston. 
Leonard F. Jones. 
James B. Leonard. 
Wm. Leggett. 
Thomas J. Morton. 
Edward H. Melius. 
Francis McConity. 
Wm. H. McGann. 
Albert S Nason. 
Marcus A. Perkins. 



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ith. Co. C {conthnnid). 

Henry H. Shedd. 
NoriiKin F. Steele. 
Thomas 15. Stoddard. 
Elihu INI. Thayer. 
Jo.seph P. Thayer. 
Loriiig ^\. Thayer. 
Andrew Toomev. 
Henry "\\'. Wright. 

Ml. Co. H. 
Chas. H. Crickraay.] 

Uh. Co. G. 

Jeremiah Dalton, Jr., May 1 to July 
31, 18G1. 

42(?, 100 days, from July 14 to Nov. 11, 
1864. 
Co. A. 
Edward A. FLsher, Coriioral. 

Co. I. 

Cranmore N. Wallace, 1st Sergeant. 

John R. Carmichael, Sergeant. 

I. P. Fuller, Sergeant. 

Kobert Gille.spie, Sergeant. 

Wm. L. Pratt, Corporal. 

Francis A. Wallace, Corporal. 

Marcus A. Perkins, Corporal. 

George W. Abbott. 

J. Fred Allen. 

Fred C. Arm.strong. 

B. Herbert P.artlett. 

Henrv W. Dean (to Sept. 21, 'fi4). 

Otis B. Dean. 

Edwin F. French. 

Wm. L. Gage. 

Caleb H. Hay den. 

Charles T. Hayden. 

Lorenzo Hayden. 

Waldo Holbrook 

Walter Holbrook. 

Davis W. Howard. 

Moses Hunt, 2d. 

Moses N. Hunt. 

Newell A. Langley. 

John McDermott. 

Kuel B. Moody. 

George W. Kickerson. 

Henry Pratt. 

Sanniel llennie. 

Charles K. Smith. 

Thomas O. Sullivan. 

Francis P. Thayer. 

Lucian M. Thayer. 

Fred H. Wales. 

George D. Willis. 

James M. Willis. 

20</i Unattached Co. 
Nelson Beals, Aug. 11, to Nov. 18, 1804. 



43d, 9 months, from OfMl,1802, to July 

' 30, lS(i3. 

Co. B. 

Edward H. ISIellus, Sergeant 

Charles W. Bean, Corporal. 

Charles A. Arnold, Corporal. 

Thomas B. Stoddard, Corjioral. 

Jonathan E. Clark, Corporal. 

Hiram E. Abbott. 

John R. (Carmichael. 

Silas B. Crane. 

Robert M. Cummings. 

"Win. B. Denton. 

Edward A. Fisher. 

Hosea B. Havden. 

Hosea B. Havden, 2d. 

Wm. G. Hilf. 

Albert O. Hollis. 

George A. Howe. 

Charles B. Leonard. 

George A. Mower. 

Wm. W. Mower. 

Shubael M. Norton. 

John F. Pool. 

Jacob C. Snow. 

Cranmore N. Wallace. 

Frank Wallace. 

John F. Wild. 

Morrill Williams. 

44?/j. Co. n. 
Everett C. Bumpus, Sept. 12, 1862, to 
June 18, 1863. 

Co. I. 
Joseph H. J. Thayer, Sept. 12, 1862, to 
June 18, 1863. 

4o^/i. Co. A. 

John W. Fowle, Musician, Oct. 13, 
1862, to July 7, 1863. 

47</i, Co. K. 

James Willis, Oct. 31, 1862, to Sept. 1, 

1863. 
John Wilson, Oct. 31, 18(52, to Sept. 1, 

1863. 

iWi. Co. I. 

John Freel, Corporal, Oct. 18, 1862, to 
Sept. 3, 1863. 

Co. K. 
James Dooley, Nov. 1, 1862, to Sept. 3, 
1863. 



Mass. Tolunteers, Three Years. 
2d Battery Lif/ht Artillery. 

Wm. E. Foye, Sept. 3, 1864, to June 11, 
1865. 

Ith Battery. 
John Breuuou, Jan. 1, 1864, to Nov. 10, 
1865. 



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I2th Battery. 
Silas B. Crane, March 26, 18G4. Died 
at Port Hudson, June 22, I8(i4. 

\st Heavy Artillery. Co. C. 

Paul Nadell, July 5, ISCl, to Jan. 31, 
1864. Ke-enli.sted Feb. 1, 1864. Trans- 
ferred to navv, April 13, 1864. Died. 

Marcus ISl. Pool, July 5, 1861, to Dec. 21, 
1863; Sergeant; re-enlisted Dec. 22, 

1863. (See Counnissioned Officers.) 
James E. Hobart, July 5, 1861. Ee-en- 

listed Dec. 6, 1863, to Aug. 16, 1865. 

Co. E. 

James T. Bestick, Sergeant, Aug. 6» 

1862, to March 26, 1865. 
Calvin Briggs, Aug. 6, 1862. Trans- 
ferred to V^eterau Eeserv^e Corps, 

July 25, 1863. 
Edward S. Dean, Aug. 6, 1862, to 

July 8, 1864. 
Henry W. Gammons, Aug. 6, 1862. 

Discharged, July 8, 1864. (See 2d 

Cavalry.) 

Co. I. 
John F. Salmon, July 5, 1861, to July 8, 

1864. 

Co. M. 
Linus C. Bird, March 3, 1862, to 

March 10, 1864. Be-eulisted ]March 10, 

1864. Transferred to Veteran Ke- 
serve Coi'ps, Oct. 1, 1864. 

Dermis Foley, March 6, 1862. Re-en- 
listed (Weymouth), March 21, 1864, 
to Aug. 16, 1865. 

Elisha P. Goodnow, March 3, 1862. Ee- 
enlisted March 10, 1864. Killed 
May I'J, 1864. 

Wm. Higgins, March 17, 1862. Ee-en- 
listed March 21, 1864. Died Feb. 15, 
1865. 

Michael McDonald, March 6, 1862, to 
March 6, 1865. 

2d Heavy Artillery. Co. C. 

John E. Boyle, Sept. 5, 1864. Trans- 
ferred Jan. !), 18()5, to 17tli Infantry. 
Discharged J une 26, 1865. 

Nehemiah T. Dyer, Sept. 5, 1864, to 
June 2(), 1865. 

George P. Hollis, Sept. 5, 1864, to June 
26, 1865. Transferred to Co. L, Jan. 
J 3, 1865 

Albert T. Pool, Sept. 5, 1864. Trans- 
ferred, Jan. 9, 1865, to 17th Infantry'. 
Discharged June oO, 1865. 

Andrew C. Toomoy, Sept. 5, 1864. 
Irausferred, Jan. U, 1665, to 17th 
Infantry. Discliarged June bO, 1865. 
Co. F. 

Fred W. Ingraham, Sergeant, Sept. 5, 
1864, to J une 2ti, 1865. 

George Atwell, Sept. 5, 1864. Trans- 
ferred, Jan. 17, 1865, to i7th Infan- 
try. 



John Shanley, Aug. 29, 1864. Died 
Dec 20, 1864. (North Bridgewater.) 

Hiram S. Thayer, Sept. 5, 1864, to J une 
26, 1865. 

Co. G. 

John Xavan, Aug. 29, 1864. Trans- 
ferred, Dec. l(i, 1864, to 17th Infantry. 
Discharged June oO, 18()5. 

Co. H. 
Samuel Meeker, Aug. 9, 1864, to Sept. 
3, 1865. 

Co. L. 

Edward Freel, Sergeant, Dec. 22, 1863, 

to Sept. 3, 1865. 
Oriu H. Belcher, Corporal, Dec. 22, 

1863, to Sept. 3, 1865. 
Horatio W. Cole, Corporal, Dec. 22, 

1863, to Sept. 3, 1865. 
Henry B. Dyer, Dec. 22, 1863, to June 

22, 1865. 
Jacob A. Dyer, Dec. 22, 1863, to Sept. 

3, 1865. 
Heury Joy, Dec. 22, 1863, to ]May 26, 

1865. 

3d Heavy Artillery. Co. D. 
Lewis Hobart, March 30, 1864. De- 
serted Aug. 23, 1865. 

Co. E. 
John Cronin, Corporal, Aug. 27, 1863, 

to Sept 18, 1865. 
Patrick Eegan, Aug. 27, 1863. Deserted 

Aug. 4, 1865. 

Co. F. 
Edward H. Melius, Sergeant, Sept. 16, 

1863; 2d Lieutenant, May 28, 1864. 
Shubael M. Norton, Sept. 16, 1863, to 

Sept. 18, 1865. 
Caleb S. Benson, Aiig. 24, 1864; 

June 17, 1865. 
William B. Denton, Sept. 24, 1864; 

June 17, 18()5. 
Lawrence A. Dyer, Sept. 16, 1863; 

Sept. 18, 1865. 
Pearl S. Gnndall, Sept. 16, 1863; 

Nov. 1, 1864. 
Elias Holbrook, Aug. 24, 1864; June 20, 

1865. 
Chas. H. Howe, Aug. 23, 1864; June 20, 

1865. 
Hosea Jackson, Aug. 23, 1864; -June 17, 

1865. 
Hervey N. Jillson, Aug. 24, 1864; 

June 17, 1865. 
John G. Miuchin, Aug. 23, 1864; 

June 17, 18()5. 
ISIartin V. B. iMinchin, Aug. 23, 1864; 

June 17, 1865. 
Henry O. Pratt, Sept. 16, 1863; Sept. 18, 

1865. 
Andrew J. Eupert, Aug. 24, 1864; 

June 17, 18(i5. 
Sauuiel W. Savill, Aug. 24, 1864; 

June 17, 1865. 



3D 



Co. G. 

Eli W. Cliase, Oct. 20, 1803; Sept. 18, 

ISfio. 
Eobeit ]Sr. Cumming.s, Oct. 20, 18G3; 

Sept. 18, 1805. 

Co. E. 
Robert Eennie, Corporal, May 12, 1804; 
Sept. 18, 1805. 

Co. L. 
Charles F. Arnold, Corporal, Aug. 29, 

1804; June 17, 1805. 
Amos W. Hobart, Artificer, Aug. 29, 

1805; June 17, 1805. 
Cyrus G. Bowker, Aug. 29, 1804; June 

17, 1805. 
Alfred H. Butler, Aug. 29, 1864; June 

17, 1805. 
Elbridge Joy, Aug. 29, 1804; June 17, 

1805. 
Joseph P. Thayer, Aug. 29, 1804; 

June 17, 1805. 



4</t Heavy Artillery. Co. C. 

Orace W. Allen, Sergeant, Aug. 9, 

1804; June 17, 1805. 
Nahuni Sampson, Sergeant, Aug. 15, 

1804; May 5. 1805. 
"\Ym. C. Stoddard, Corporal, Aug. 9, 

1804; June 17, 1805. 
Cyrus Cuiumings, Wagoner, Aug. 13, 

'1804; June 17, 1805. 
John G. N. Henderson, Aug. 10, 1864; 

June 17, 1805. 
Lothrop C. Keith, Aug. 9, 1804; 

June 17, 1805. 
William C. Knight, Aug. 11, 1804; 

June 17, 1805. 
John Laing, Aug. 12, 1804; June 17, 

1805. 
Angus McGilvray, Aug. 10, 1804; 

June 17, 18()5. 
Michael Nugent, Aug. 10, 1864 ; June 17, 

1H05. 

Co. F. 

John Flynu, Aug. 15, 1864, to June 17, 
1805. 

Co. G. 

Eobert T. Bestick, Aug. 20, 1804; 

Juno 17, 1805. 
George C. H. Deets, Aug. 26, 1804; 

June 17, 1805. 
Sanuiel B. Holbrook, Aug. 26, 1864; 

June 17, 18(i5. 
James Toole, Aug. 26, 1864; June 17, 

1865. 

Co. K. 

William M. Strachan, 1st Sergemt, 
Aug. 18, 1804; 2d Lieutenant (Bos- 
ton), Feb. 19, 1865, to June 17, 1805. 



1st Battalion Heavy Artillery. Co. A. 

Benjamin J. Loring, Jr., 1st Sergeant, 
Feb. 20, 1802; Feb. 27, 1805. 

George S. Hull', Sergeant, Feb. 20, 
1802; Feb. 27, 1805. 

Charles E. Pratt, Corporal, Feb. 21, 
1802; Feb. 27, 1805. 

Henry Bayley, July 1, 1864; June 22, 
186.5. 

Frank Osborn, Feb. 24, 1862; July 20, 
1802. 

Elilui M. Thayer, Feb. lit, 1862. Re- 
enlisted, March 1, 1804, to Oct. 20, 
1805. 

Co. B. 

Calvin T. Dyer, Sept. 10, 1863; June 29, 

1865. 
John Q. Ela, Dec. 3, 1803; June 29, 

1805. 
Edward A. Hale, Oct. 29, 1862; June 29, 

18(55. 
George B. Jones, Oct. 29, 1862; June 29, 

18(i5. 

ojivBlis jf. s.*fine, owt. 10, ieee. Av 

Michael B. McCormick, Jan. 13, 1803; 

June 29, 1805. 
George H. Randall, Aug. 7, 1803; 

June 29, 1805. 
Wilbert K. Bobbins, Dec. 4, 1863; 

June 29, 1S05. 
William H. Saunders, Oct. 25, 1802; 

June 29, 1805. 
Jacob C. Snow, Aug. 18, 1803; June 29, 

1805. 
Benj. F. Spear, Aug. 7, 1863; June 29, 

1865. 

Co. C. 
Francis White, Quartermaster-Ser- 
geant, Aug. 22, 1803; Oct. 20, 1805. 
Warren C. ^Mansfield, Aug. 3, 1803; 

June 29, 1805. 
William H. McQuiuu, Aug. 18, 1802; 

June 29, 1x05. 
Samuel E. Whitinarsh, April 22, 1S03; 

Oct. 20, 1805. 

Co. I). 

Charles Blake, June 0, 1803. Deserted, 
May 31, 1804. 

1st Cavalry. Co. H. 

Peter A. Drollett, Oct. 12, 1861, to Oct. 

8, 1804. 
Alvin Jackson, Oct. 12, 1801, to Jan. 

10, 1803. Re-enlisted 4th Cavalry. 

Co. K. 

William A. Daggett, Bugler, Sept. 17, 
1801. Transferred to 4th Cavalry. 

James B. Frazier, Nov. 20, 1861. 
Transferred to 4th Cavalry. 

Henry A. Hobart, Nov. 20, 1861. Trans- 
ferred to 4th Cavalry. 

George F. Pennimau', Sept. 25, 1861. 
TransfeiTed to 4th Cavalrv. 



ScL Jf fj/L//^ 



40 



2d Cavalry. Co. F. 

Henry AV. Gammons, Jan. 2, 1865, to 

July 20, lK(i5. 
George F. Thayer, April 3, 18G3. Killed 

April 1, 18(J5. 

Co. IT. 
Owen Fox, Oct. 9, 18C3. Killed Jnly 
(i, 181 :4. 



3d Cavalry. Co. B. 

Edwin L. Curtis, Sergeant, Dec. 11, 
18G3, to Sept. 28, 1865. 

Co.D. 

Eichard M. Sanborn, 1st Sergeant, 

Jan. 30, 1864; 2d Lieutenant, Aug. 

17, 1865. 
Theodore C Howe, Q. M. Sergeant, 

Dec. 7, 1863; 1st Lieutenant, Oct. 5, 

1865. 
Hosea B. Hayden, Corporal, Dec. 31, 

1863, to Sept 28, 1865. 

Wm. G. Hill, Corporal, Dec 5, 1863, to 

July 29, 18(55. 
Josejih W. Huff, Corporal, March 11, 

1864, to Sept. 28, 1865. 

Charles B. Leonard, Corporal, Dec. 21, 

1863, to Sept. 28, 1865. 
Jonathan R Clark, Blacksmith, Dec. 

31, 1863, to Sept 28, 1865 
George V. Chick, Dec. 5, 1863, to Sept. 

28, 1865. 
Stephen W. Dawson, Jan. 29, >1864. 

Died (Belonged in Taunton. ) 
John Halpiu, Dec. 28, 1863, to Sept. 

28, 181)5. 

Isaac R. Harmon, Feb. 15, 1864, to 

Sept. 28, 18(15. 
Philip McQuinty, Jan. 5, 18(34, to July 

29. 1865. 

George A. ISIower, Feb. 9, 1864, to 

Sept. 28, 18()5. 
James Spear, Dec. 10, 1863, to Sept. 28, 

1865. 
Charle.s S. Thayer, Feb. 15, 1864, to 

Aug. 19, 1865. 

Co. E. 
James Riley, Sept. 20, 1862. Deserted 
^"ov. 25, 1862. 

Co. G. 
Patrick Dunlay, Nov. 1, 1862. to May 
20, 1865. 

Co. I. 
Eoval Belcher, Aug. 5 1862, to May 

'lO, 18(J5. 
James Smith, Aug. 5, 1862, to May 20, 
1865. 

Co. K. 
John T. Avres, 1st Sergeant, Aug 6, 
lSli2. Killed Oct. 19, 1864, at Cedar 
Creek, V^a. 
Tiuiotliy Curran, Corporal, Aug. 6, 



1862. Transferred, Aug. 20, 1864, to 

Veteran Reserve Corps. 
John G. Ingrahain, (Corporal, Aug. 6, 

1862, to March 1, 1863. 
Jonathan S. Paine, Corporal, Aug 6. 

18(i2. Transferred, Aug 20, 18(53, to 

Veteran Reserve Corps. 
Wm A. Bishop, Bugler, Aug 6, 1862, 

to INLay 30, 1865 
Edward E. Patten, Saddler, Aug. 6, 

18()2. Died of Avounds, Nov. 15, 

18(54. 
John F. Albee, Feb 29, 1864. Died 

June 22, 18(54. 
Edward Bannon, Aug. 6, 1862; May 

21, 1865. 
,Tohn Barry, Aug. 6, 1862; Sept. 28, 

1865. 
Lewis D. Bates, Aug. 6, 186-'; May 21, 

18(-5. 
Leonard Belcher, Aug. 6, 1862; March 

1, 1863. 
Elisha S. Bowditch, Dec 7, 1863. Died 

Sept 19, 18(54. 
James E. Buri)ee, Aug. 6, 1862. Trans- 
ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, 

Aug. 20, 1864. 
Patrick Cahill, Dec 12, 18(53, to Julv 

5, 1865. 
Stephen Connor, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 

21, 1865. 
Chandler Cox, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 21, 

1865. 
Marcus Cram, Aug. 6, 1862; Jan. 26, 

1864. 
Wm. L. Cram, Aug. 6, 1864. Deserted 

IMarch 1, 1863. 
John Creddock, Aug. 6, 1862; May 21, 

1865. 
Birdsey Curtis, Aug. 6, 1862. Absent. 
Charles C. Davis, Aug. (5, 1862; Jan. 

23, 1863 
Joseph Dissotelle, Aug. 6, 1862; Mav 

21, 18(55 
John Flood, Aug. 6, 1862; May 21, 

1865. 
Chas. E. Fogg, Aug 6, 18(52; Aug. 9, 

18(i5. 
Wm. H. French, Aug. 6, 1862; May 

21, 1865. 
Thomas C. Gardner, Aug. 6, 1862; May 

21, 1865. 
Peter T. Godfrey, Aug. 6, 1862. De- 
serted. 
Oliver S. Harrington, Aug. 6, 1862, to 

Mav 21, 1865. 
Almond E. Ingalls, Dec. 21, 1863. 

Transferred to Veteran Reserve 

Corps, Jan. 17, 1865. 
George A. Joy, Aug. 6, 1862, to April 

27, 1863. 
James Kennedy, Jfin. 4, 1864. Trans- 
ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps, 

Feb. 16, 18(55. 
Wm. S. Leach, Aug. 6, 1862. Died 

Aug. 7, 1863. 
Frederick Marr, Aug. 6, 1862. 



41 



yVm. p. ISrai-tin, Feb. 22, 1804. Trans- 
ferred to Veteran Reserve Corps. 

Frank McConuetty, Aug. 6, 1802. Ab- 
sent. 

INIichael Mc^NIiirphv, Aug. G, 1862. De- 
serted Dec. 8, 1802. 

Wni. W. Mower, Dec. 21, 1803. De- 
serted Aug. 14, 1804. 

Albert S. Nasou, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 
21, 186.5. 

Daniel W. Niles, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 
21. 1865. 

Sanuiel H. Paine, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 
21, 1805. 

Charles E. Pratt, Aug. 6, 1862, to Nov. 

• 15. 1K63. 

Isaac Raymond, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 
21, 1865. 

Oliver Simmons, Aug. 6, 1862, to Feb. 
18, 1863. 

Quincv Sprague, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 
21. i805. 

George H. Stevens, Dec. 21, 1863. 
Transferred to Veteran Reserve 
Corp.s. Dec. 20, 1S04. 

Ansel P. Thaver, Aug 6, 1862. Killed 
Sept. 19, 1S(;4. 

Ephraim F. Thayer, Dec. 31, 1803, to 
Aug. 8, 1805. 

Major Tirrell, Aug. 6, 1862, to May 21, 
1S05. 

Americus V. Tirrell, Aug. 6, 1862, to 
Jan. IS, lS(i4. 

John F AVild, Dec. 26, 1863. Killed 
April 8, 1864. 

Thomas S. Williams, Dec. 5. 1863. 
Transferred to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, Jan. 10, 1865. 

Co. i¥. 
Garrett G. P>ai-rv, Sergeant, Dec. 13, 
ISOl. Re-enlisted Feb. 1, 1804. Killed 
April 8, 1804. 

Rejected Recruit; not assigned to a Com- 
pany. 

Edward A. ISIay, Feb. 18, 186-1, to March 
10, 1864. 

Fourth Cavalry. Co. D. 

Alvin Jackson, Jan. 9, 1864. Killed 
Jan. 15, 18(!5. 

Co. F. 
William L. Cram, Jan. 27, 1804, to 
Kov. 14, 1805. 

Co. K. 

Henry A. Hobart, Sergeant, Nov. 26, 
isoi. 1st Cavalry. (Re-enlisted, 
April 10, 18(;4.) Deserted Aug. 9, 
1805. (See 1st Cavah-y.) 

William A Daggett, Bugler, Sept. 17, 
1801, to Sept. 21, 1864. (See 1st Cav- 
alry.) 



James B. Frazior, Nov. 6, 1801, to 
-Ian. 4, 1805. (See 1st Cavalry.) 

George F. Penniinan, Sept. 25. 1861, to 
Sept. 25, 1864. (See 1st Cavalry.) 

5th Cavalry. 

James M. Cutting, Veterinary Sur- 
geon, Sept. 16, 1864, to Oct. 31, 1865. 

2d Infantry. Co. G. 

William Foley, May 25, 1861, to July 20, 

1803 
Dennis INIoriarty, May 25, 18fil. Died, 

April 1, 1802. ( Fioston ) 
William Welsh, May 25, 18C1, to 

Jan. :'.l, 1803. 

Wi Infantry. Co. B. 

John Healey, June 11, 1801. Deserted 
Sept. 22, 1861. 

Co. C. 
John P. Murphy, June 11, 1861, to 
June 21, 1804. 

Co. G. 
Cornelius Furfy, June 11, 1861. Killed 

July 1, 1S62. 
Ri(^hard Furfy, June 11, 1861, to 
June 21, urn. 

Co. II. 
John Foley, Aug. 21, 1863. Trans- 
ferred June 10, 1804, to 32d Regiment. 

Co. K. 
Anthony Columbus, Aug. 21, 1863. 
Transferred, June 10, 1864, to 32d 
Regiment. 

\lth Infantry. Co. B. 

John P. Maloney, Sergeant, June 13, 
1861. Deserted Nov. 15, 1861. 

William M. Tirrell, Sergeant, June 13, 
1801, to June 24, 1804. 

James Wilkie, Corj)oral, June 13, 1861. 
Deserted April 29, 18()2. 

Co. D. 
Owen Greenlish, June 13, 1861, to 

Aug. 22, 1861. 

Co. E. 
Francis Mavmont, Aug. 14, 1863, to 

July 14, 1865. 

Co. E. 
J:)me.s Barrett, June 13, 1861. Deserted 

May 15, 1862. 
Thomas H. Neal, June 13, 1861, to 

Oct 22, 1862. 
Samuel W. Saville, June 13, 1861, to 

June 24, 18(^4. 
Tliomas Wilson, Aug. 12, 18(33, to 

July 14, 1865. 



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V2th Infantry. Co. C. 

Francis W. Kahle, July 22, 1863. Died 

March (j, l.S(;4. 
Micliael Preston, July 5, 18G1, to Dec. 

31, 1862. 
Epliraiiu F. Tliayer, June 26, 1861, to 

Feb. 28, 1863. 
Johu Q. Wliitmarsh, June 26, 1861. 

Died Seijt. 1«, 1862. (Weymouth.) 

Co. E. 
Christopher P. Tower, June 26, 1861, to 
March y, 1863. 

Co. F. 
Joseph P. Davis, June 26, 1861, to July 

8, 186rl. 

Co. H. 

Charles A. Pope, 1st Sergeant, June 26, 
1861. Died iS'ov. 30, 1»63. (Enlisted 
in Weymouth ) 

Warren Stetson, July 17, 1863. Trans- 
ferred, June 25, 1864, to 3iith. 

John y. A. Thayer, June 26, 1861, to 
July 8, lfS64. 



\Zth Infantry. Co. G. 

Hiram S. Thayer, July 16, 1861, 
Aug. 1, 186i. 



/. 



to 



IQlh Infantry. Co. 

William Cunniugliam, Aug. 30, 1861, 
to July 15, I860 

Co. K. 
James Bradley, July 2, 1861, to July 
27, 1864. (irom NValtham, in State 
record. ) 

\~th Infantry. Co. E. 

Albert T. Poole, Sept. 5, 1864, to June 

30, 1865. 
John F. Poole, Sept. 5, 1864, to June 

30, 1865. 

Co. G. 

John Navan, Aug. 29, 1864, to June 30, 
1865. 



18^/i Infantry. Co. E. 

Asa W. Holbrook, Aug. 24, 1861. Ee- 
eulisted, Jan. 1, 1S64. Transferred, 
Oct. 26, 1864, to 32d Infantry. 

Co. K. 
Thomas Smith, Jr , Corporal, Aug. 24, 
ISGl, to Jan. 26, 1»63. 

19tk Infantry. Co. B. 

Duncan Crawford, Aug. 3, 1>'63. Trans- 
ferred, Jan. 14, 1664, to 20th. 



Co. E. 
Daniel Corrigan, Sergeant, Sept. 2, 

1861. Ke-eulisted, Uee. 22, l8o3, to 
June 30, 1865. 

James Carrigan, July 26, 1861. Re-en- 
listed, Dec. 22, 1863, Veteran Reserve 
Corps. 

Co. K. 

Samuel D. Chase, Corporal, Oct. 31, 

1862, to June 30, 18(J5. 

Marcus P. Arnold, Oct. 29, 1862. Re- 
enlisted, Feb. 16, 1864, to June 30, 
1865. 

(Uuassigned. N. A. White, Aug. 19, 
1861. JSTo record of discharge.) 



20th Infantry. Co. E. 

Horatio N. Faxon, Aug. 15, 1862. 
Killed at Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862. 
(Accredited to Quincy.) 

Co. F. 
Duncan Crawford, Jan. 14,1864. Tran.s- 
ferred to navy, April 23, 1864. 

Co. G. 
John Goodman, Sept. 4, 1861, to Sept. 
3, 1864. 

Co. I. 

Charles Holbrook, Dec. 9, 1861, to Oct. 
15, 1862. 

Co. K. 

Thomas J. Crowell, Corporal, Aug. 21, 
1861. Killed Dec. 13, 1862. 

22d Infantry. Co. E. 

Jeremiah Dalton, 2d, Corporal, Oct. 1, 
1861. Killed June 27, 1862. 

Co. F. 

Charles L. Holbrook, July 28, 1863. 
Transferred, Oct. 26, 1864, to 32d. 

Edward Huff, July 17, 1«()3. Trans- 
ferred, Oct. 26, 1864, to 32d. 

Co. I. 
Charles H. Crickmay, Corporal, Sept. 

6, 1861. Died of wounds, June oO, 

1862. 
Alexander R. Fogg, Sept. 6, 1861. 

Killed June 27, 1662. 



George 
Sept. 8, 1862. 



23d Infantry. Co. II. 

B. Jones, Sept. 28, 1861, 



to 



2Uh Infantry. Co. B. 

George White, Sept. 18, 1861. Re-en- 
listed, Dec. 18, 1863, for Quincy. 



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Co. C. 
Daniel Austin Thayer, July 29, 18G2. 
Died Jan. 4, 18(i4/ 

Co. G. 
Loiing N. Havden, Corporal, Nov. 15, 

l.S(;i. Ite-enlisted, Jan. 3, 18C4, to 

Jan. 20. 18(;(>. 
Edward M. French, Nov. 13, 1861, to 

Alii;. 4, 1863. 
W. Martin Harmon, Nov. 13, 1861. 

Died April 30, 1863. 
Abraham W. Hobart, July 20, 1862. 

Be-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864. Deserted 

Aug. 17, 1865. 
Seth Taunt, Dec. 5, 1861. Ee-enlisted, 

Jan. 4, 1864, to July 15, 1865. 
George X. Tliaver, Sept. l(i, 1861. Ee- 

enllsted, Jan. 4, 1864, to Jan. 20, 1866. 

Co. II. 
James L. Curti.«. July 29, 1862. Ee- 
enlisted for Kandolfdi, Jan. 4, 1864; 
toJau. 20, 1866. 

11th Infantry. Co. D. 

Maxon G. Healey, July 23, 1862, to 
Sept. 27, 1864. 



28^71 Infantry. Co. B. 

John Connors, Aug. 10, 1863. Died 

July 6, 1864. 
Amos A. Loring, Jan. 5, 1864. Died at 

City Point, Va. 

Co. C. 
Henry Barton, Dec. 13, 1861, to Dec. 

19, 1864. 

Co. D. 
John Connor, Sergeant, Jan. 2, 1864; 

1st Lieutenant iBostou), Aug. 19, 

1864. 
Adams H. Cogswell, Jan. 2, 1862. 
Charles Gray, Aug. 10, 1863. Died 

Sept. 15, 1864. 
AVilliam Eeevers, Aug. 12, 1863, to 

thine 20, 1865. 

Co. F. 
Thomas Smith, Jan. 8, 1862, to Sept. 30, 

1862. 

Co. G. 
Charles :Miller. Aug. 12, 1863. Deserted 

Aug. 31. J 863. 
Francis Winn, Dec. 19, 1861. Deserted 

June 29, 1863. 

Co. I. 

Frederick Smith, Aug. 11, 1863. De- 
serted. 



Unassiyned Recruit. 
Peter Higgins, Aug. 14, 1863. 



29^/i Infantry. Co. A. 

John W. Sweeney, IMay 21, 1861, to 
Aug. 28, 1862. 

Co. B. 
Ira D. Bryant, ]\lay 14, 1861. 
James Freel. ^May 14, 1861. 
George S. AVhiting; no record. 

Co. I). 
John Conley, Aug. 20, 1864, to July 29, 

1865. 
James Flinn, Aug. 19, 1864. Deserted 

Jan. 19, 1865. 

30^/t Infantry. Co. F. 

Samuel F. Harrington, Nov. IS, 1861. 
Ke-enlisted, Jan. 2, 1864, to July 5, 
1866. 



31st Infantry. Co. K. 

Ebenezer C. Thayer, Jr., Corporal, 
Jan. 29, 1862; June 25, 1863, 2d Lieu- 
tenant, 2d La. 

John W. Dargan, Jan. 23, 1862. Sig- 
nal Corps, ^oy. 27, 1864. 

Wm. Kayhoo, Jan. 17, 1862, to Feb. 14, 
1864; to re-enlist. 

John Eeunie, Feb. 6, 1862, to Nov. 1, 
1862. 



32d Infantry. Co. E. 

Loring W. Thayer, 1st Sergeant, Dec. 

2, 1861. Ee-enlisted Jan. 5, 1864. 

Killed Sept. 30, 1864. 
Norman F. Steele, 1st Sergeant, Dec. 

2, 1861; 2d Lieutenant. 
James B. Leonard, ('orporal, Dec. 2, 

1861; 2d Lieutenant. 
Leonard F. Huff, Dec. 2, 1861. Died 

Aug. 23, 1862. 
Henry T. Wade, Dec. 2, 1861. Killed 

July 2, 1863. 

Co. F. 
Asa W. Holbrook, Jan. 21, 1864, to 

June 29, J 865. 

Co. II. 
John Foley, Aug. 21, 1863, to June 29, 
1865. 

Co. I. 
Wm. Daley, Musician, Aug. 11, 1S62. 
Ee-enlisted, Jan. 4, 1864, to June 2'j, 
1865. 
Anthony Columbus, Aug. 22, 1863. 
Died. 

Co. L. 
Charles L. Holbrook, July 28, 1863, to 

June 29, 1865. 
Edward Huff, July 17, 1863, to June 29, 
1865. 



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3od Infantry. Co. E. 

Edgar L. Bumpus, Sergeant, Aug. 5. 
ls(j2. (See Com. Officers.) Killed 
]May 15, 1864. 

Co. K. 

:Mart)n Branley, Aug. 8, 18G2, to Nov. 

24. 1SG2. 
T. Horace Cain, Aug. 8, 1862. Died 

Julv 7. 1865. 
TTm. "Mulligan, Aug. 8, 1862, to June 

11, 1S65. 
John W. AV. Rowell, Aug. 8, 1862, to 

Dec. 28, 1863. 
James K. Tower, Aug. 8, 1862, to June 

11, 1865. 
Nathaniel A. White, Aug. 8, 1862. 

Transferred to Veteran Reserve 

Corps, May 2, 1864. 



Zoth Infantry. Co. E. 

Wni. D. Lyons, Aug. 19, 1862, to April 

20, 1863. 

Co. H. 
John Davis, Aug. If), 1862. Died Aug. 

23. 1S(;3. (Enlisted in Weymouth.) 

3Gth Infantry. Co. K. 

Alhert G. Wilder, Corporal. Aug. 11, 
1862. Transferred to Veteran Reserve 
Corps, Mav 31, 1864. 

Daniel W. Dean, Aug 8, 1862. Died. 

Seth Deau, Aug. 8, 1862. Died Jan. 27, 
1863. 



o&th Infantry. Co. I. 

Edward Freel, Aug. 21, 1862, to Feb. 
14, 1863. 

John V. Hunt, Aug. 21, 1862, to June 
30. 1S()5. 

James W. Thayer, Aug 21, 1862. Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps, May 31, 1864. 

Stephen Thayer, Aug. 21, 1862, to June 
30, 1865. 

Co. K. 

Hiram P. Abbott, Corporal, Aug. 20, 

1862, to June 30, 1865. 
Henrv H. Shedd, Corporal, Aug. 20, 

1S62. to Oct. 24, 1862. 
George H. Brvant, Aug. 20, 1862, to 

]March 24, 1863. 
Warren R. Dalton, Aug. 20, 1862, to 

June 30, 1865. 
Charles David, Aug. 20, 1862, to Feb. 

13. 18(j3. 
Edward David, Aug. 20, 1862. Killed 

June 14, 18()3. 
Solon David, Aug. 20, 1862, to June 30, 

1865. 



cQih Infantry. Co. G. 

James Bannon, Sept. 2, 1862. Died 

April 12, 1805. 
Warren Stetson, July 17, 1803, to May 

18, 1865. 

Co. H. 
John Preston, Sept. 2, 1862, to Jan. 29, 

1863. 

40;/i Infantry. Co. F. 

Michael Mc:Murphy, Sept. 3, 1862, to 

March 24, 1863. 

Co. II 
Daniel F. Leonard, Sept. 1, 1862, to 

Veteran Reserve Corxjs, March 15, 

1865. 



5Gth Infantry. Co. E. 

Michael P. Foley, Jan. 12, 1864, to 
July 12, 1865. 



58?7i Infantry. Co. E. 

Joseph Jenkins, March 1, 1864, to July 
14, 1865. 



1st Co. Sharp-Shootcrs. 

Josiah H. Hunt, Oct. 31, 1862. Vet- 
eran Reserve Corps, March 16, 18(54. 

N. W. Penuimau, Oct. 13, 18(52. Re- 
enlisted, Feb. 16, 1864, to July 25, 1864. 



Veteran Beserve Corps. 

AVm. Butler, Sept. 3, 1864. 
Patrick Calahan, May 16, 1864, 
liarnev Feeney, May 16, 18(>4. 
Peter Hutchbeck, May 17, 1864. 
Edward Kellogg, May 17, 18(>4. 
.lethro Lynch, May lii, 1864. 
Jesse B. Nourse^ April 11, 1864. 



United States Service, Regular 
Army and Volunteers. 

Albert F. Wood, 1st U. S. Artillery, 
from April 11, 18(n, to April 11, 1864. 



Musicians. 

Abijah Allen, enlisted Dec. 22, 1863. 
Band of 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 2d 
Corps, Army of the Potomac. Dis- 
charged May 31, 1865. 

Hiram A. French, enlisted Dec. 22, 
18(i3. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2d 
Corps. Discharged May 31, 1865. 

Eugene D. Daniels, enlisted Dec. 22, 
1«()3. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 2d 
Corps. Discharged May 31, 1865. 



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Luther Hayden, from Oct. 2G, 18(54, to 

June 1.'), 18(;5. 
Francis W. Holbrook, from Jan. 4, 

18(;4, to May 31, 18(i5. 1st Brigade, 

1st Division, 2d Corps. 
Jacob S. Lord, from Oct. 26, ISIM, to 

June 13, 18(io. 
Jonathan Tliaver, Jr., from Oct. 2fi, 

18(i4, to June 13, 1805. Band, 3d 

Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Corps, 

Sherman's army. 

70th Infantry {Colored). 
John Bell, from Jan. 31, 18(15, to 

Other State Organizations. 
IQth iV. Y. Infantry. 

Levi Bunker, enlisted June 20, 1861. 

Died June 16, 1863. 
Edward S. Bunker, enlisted July 13, 

1861. Died Sept. 11, 18()2. 
Alfred E. Parker, enlisted July 15, 

1861. Killed May 5, 1862. 

25^/t N. Y. Infantry. 

Thomas Smith, enlisted May 13, 1861. 
Died June — , 18(i2. 



3d Maryland. 



1862. 



John Finnegan. enlisted Feb 

Died ]March 12, 1863. 
Alonzo A. Tower, enlisted Feb , 18()2, 



12th Vermont. 

Benjamin F. Arnold, Oct. 4, 1862, to 
July 21, 1863. Re-enlisted in Stli 
Vermont, Jan. 6, 1864. Died Dec. 
29, 18(i4. 

Nelson Arnold, Oct. 18, 1862, to July 
21, 18(i3. Ee-eulisted, 17th Vermont. 
Sept 29, 18(j3, to June 19, 1864 Killed. 

Of Unknown Organizations. 

William S. Adams. 

William C. Bright. 

Symes Ct. Buker. 

James Dooley. 

IMichael Doran. 

Edward Duvle. 

Daniel B. Ellis. 

John Freel (2d enlistment). 

James Flynn. 

Patrick Glancy. 

James T. Godfrey. 

John Hanlon. 

Albert Howard, Jr. • 

Lewis U. Hubbard. 

John W Langley. 

Bernard jNIcGoveru. 

(reorge E. Xelson. 

John O'Neil. 

John Smith. 

Charles E Smith. 

William Tavlor. 

Edward Tilden. 

William Towuspnd. 

Peter Whitmarsh. 

William O. Wright. 



NAVY. 



(A portion of these names were assigned to the town quota from the State at 
large. The correctness of many of them is uncertain.) 



John Ten id, enlisted Feb 19, 1862. 
David H. Thayer, Jan. 18, 1862. 
George Shepjiard, July 10, 1862. 
George Steechfiield, July 15, 1862. 
William Thompson, July 10, 1862. 
George Thom]ison, July 8, 18(;2. 
Charles Thoniiison, July 10, 1S62. 
John Thompson, July 12, I8(;2. 
Michael Tenney, July 9, 18(32. 
James Tunneman, July 11, 1862. 
John Smith, July 17, IWG. 
Alexander B. Shaw, July 17, 1862. 
Peter Shields, July 19, 18(i2. 
Michael Staffer, July 15, lSii2. 
Dexter P. Moulton, Dec. 10, 1863. 
]Martin Murphy. Dec. 11, 18()3. 
James McLaughlin, Dec. 7. 1K63. 
Charles Marson. Dec. 14, 1863. 
Edward :McCrady, Dec. 12, 186,3. 
Archibald McV.ane, Dec. 15, 1863. 
Daniel Mullen, Dec. 16. 18(>5. 
Patrick .McCarthy, Dec. 15, 1863. 



William McLaughlin, Dec. IS, 1863. 

Lawrence McGuire. Dec. 17, 1863. 

Patrick .McCarthy, Dec. 18, 186.3. 

Patrick McWilliams, Dec. 18, 1863, 

George E. Nelson, Aug 13, 1864. 

Allan McDonald, Aug. 15, 1864. 

Duncan Crawford, April 23, 1864. 

Itoyal J. Freeman. 

George Howe. 

Thomas J. ISIartin. 

George A. Raymond. 

William H. Spear. 

Stephen Martin. 

George R Home. 

Thom.as ISIonahan. 

Charles McDonald. 

John McDonald. 

John Newson. 

, ramies Xettlt'tou. 

Charles Smith. 

Paul Xadell 

William IL Mathews. 



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THE DEPARTMENTS IN WHICH THE FOREGOING REGIMENTS 

SERVED, 



First Heavy Artillery, in the Army of 
the Potomac. 

Second Heavy Artillery, in North Car- 
olina (chiefly). 

Tliiril Heavy Artillery, in the defences 
of Boston Harbor and Washington. 

Fourth Heavy Artillery, in the de- 
fences of Washington. 

First Battalion, Heavy Artillery, in 
the forts of Boston Harbor, New 
Bedford, and Lake Cliamplain. 

First Cavalry, in South Carolina, and 
in the Army of the Potomac. 

Second Cavalry, in the Army of the 
Potomac. 

Third Cavalry, in the Department of 
the Gulf, and Shenandoah Valley. 

Fourth Cavalry, a part in South Caro- 
lina, and a part in the Armj^ of the 
Potomac. 

Fifth Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, 
and Gulf Department. 

Second Infantry, Army of the Potomac, 
Army of the Cumberland, Sherman's 
march through Georgia and South 
Carolina. 

Ninth Infantrj^ Army of the Potomac. 

Eleventh Infantry, Army of the Poto- 
mac. 

Twelfth Infantry, Army of the Poto- 
mac. 

Thirteenth Infantry, Army of the Po- 
tomac. 

Sixteenth Infantry, Army of the Poto- 
mac. 

Seventeenth Infantry, Army of the 
Pot(>mac. 

Eighteenth Infautrj', Army of the Po- 
tomac. 

Twentieth Infantry, Army of the Poto- 
mac. 

Twenty-Second Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac. 

Twenty-Third Infantry, in North Car- 
olina. 

Twenty-Fourth Infantry, in North Car- 
olina and Army of Potomac. 

Twenty-Seventh Infantry, in the De- 
])artment of the South (South Caro- 
lina) 

Twenty-Eighth Infantry, in the Depart- 
ment of the South and Army of the 
Potomac. 



Twenty-Ninth Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac, of Mississijipi and East 
Tennessee. 

Thirtieth Infantry, Gulf Department 
(Louisiana). 

Thirty-First Infantry, Gulf Depart- 
ment. 

Thirty-Second Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac. 

Thirty-Third Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac, of the Cumberland, and 
Sherman's march through Georgia 
and South Carolina. 

Thirty-Fifth Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac. 

Thirth-Sixth Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac and East Tennessee. 

Thirty-Eighth Infantry, Gulf Depart- 
meut, Shenandoah Valley, and North 
Carolina. 

Thirty-Ninth Infantry, Army of the 
Potomac 

Fortieth Infantry, Army of the Poto- 
mac. 

Fifty-Fifth Infantry, Department of 
the South (South Carolina). 

Fifty-Sixth Infantry, Army of the Po- 
tomac. 

Fifty-Eighth Infantrj', Army of the 
Potomac 

Company of Sharp-Shooters, Army of 
the Potomac. 

Twentv-Fiftli and Seventieth New 
York, Third :Maryland, Twelfth 
aud Se\'enteenth Vermont, in the 
Army of the Potomac. 

Second Louisiana, in the Gulf Depart- 
ment. 

Fourth Militia, Fortress Monroe. 

Fifth Militia, in Washingt6n aud at 
Bull Run. 

Forty-Second Militia (100 days), in 
Wasliington. 

Fortj'-Third Militia, in North Carolina. 

Forty-Fourth jNlilitia, in North Caro- 
lina. 

Forty-Fifth Militia, in North Carolina. 

Forty-Seventh Militia, in Louisiana. 

Forty-Eighth Militia, in Louisiana. 

Veteran Reserve Corps, in various de- 
fences of cities. 

First United States Artillery, in the 
Army of the Potomac. 



APPENDIX IT. 



Ay AccouxT of the Services of Dedication of the Soldiers' 

Monument. 

On the 17th of June, 1874, the monument erected in memoiy of 
the soldiers of Braintree who had died in service was dedicated with 
becoming formalities. Extended preparations had been made to 
give the occasion high distinction among the festival da^^s of the 
town, and ahhough occasional showers somewhat interfered with 
the full success of the arranged programme of services, yet in all 
respects tlie ceremonies were thoroughly impressive and enjoyable. 
The houses and grounds of citizens and the public buildings were 
elaborately decorated, and the principal streets were crowded with 
visitors, among the invited guests being His Exeellenc}- Governor 
Talbot and his council. 

The arrangements of the procession were carried out creditably 
by Capt. James T. Stevens, tlie chief marshal of the day. The 
procession formed at the Town House at about nine o'cloclv in the 
forenoon, led by the organization of old soldiers of the town, 
Gen. Sylvanus Thayer Post, 87, Grand Army of the Republic, 
which was followed by visiting Posts from Randolpli, Quincy, 
AVeymouth, and South Boston, by several Masonic bodies, and by 
invited guests and prominent citizens in carriages. Marching 
tlirough the main street of the town, it was dismissed at noon for 
dinner in a large tent raised on the Common, and in the Town 
House. 

At two o'clock, r. m., the unveiling of the monument, which 
stands upon the town grounds, near the Town House and public 
library, was performed in the following order : — 



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MUSIC BY THE BEAINTREE BRASS BAXD. 

READING OF THE REPORT OF THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT 

COMMITTEE, 

BY F. A. HOBART, AS FOLI-OWS : 

Tlie committee appointed by the citizens, and subsequently authorized 
bj'tlie town, to erect a suitable memorial to the men of Braiutree who died 
or were killed in service during the war of the Rebellion, having concluded 
their labors, respectfully submit their report. 

Early in the j-ear 18G5, before peace had been declared and the war of 
the Rebellion ended, a meeting of the citizens of Braiutree was held in the 
To\^^l Hall, to devise measures to secure the erection of a suitable memo- 
rial to the soldiers, from the town, who died or were killed in service. 

This meeting was very fully attended, and the unanimous expression of 
opinion was favorable to the object. 

At this meeting a committee, consisting of Messrs. F. A. Hobart, Asa 
French, Horace Abercrombie, Levi W. Hobart, and E. "\V. Arnold, was 
appointed to take the matter into consideration, with instructions to take 
such preliminary action as they might deem advisable to secure the neces- 
sary funds for the erection of a monument. This committee, after con- 
sultation, finding that there was a general willingness on the part of all 
our people to do something in aid of the object, decided to hold a fair and 
levee at Town Hall, and invited the ladies to co-operate with them in 
making the necessary arrangements therefor. 

To this invitation a ready and liberal response Avas made, and a fair sub- 
sequently held, the net proceeds of which realized a little upwards of 
thirteen hundred dollars ($1,300). 

This sum was afterwards increased to about fourteen hundred dollars, 
by means of a musical entertainment given by the j'oung folks. The 
fund thus raised was loaned by the committee to the town. 

No further action was taken until March, 1867, when the matter was 
lu'ought to the attention of the town by the committee, an article being 
inserted in the warrant, " to see if the town will make an appropriation in 
aid of the erection of a soldiers' monument, and authorize the committee 
to procure plans and estimates." 

At that meeting the committee previously selected by the citizeus was 
adopted by the town, and Jason G. Howard, Edward Avery, Alva Morrison, 
aud Edward Potter added thereto. It was also voted, "that the Connnit- 
tee on the Soldiers' Monument be authorized to procure plans and esti- 
mates, and report the result, for future action by the town." 

Several meetings of the committee were subsequently held, but for vari- 
ous reasons no definite conclusions were reached. 

On the 4th of March, 1872, the committee, feeling that it was time that 
some progi'ess was made and something definite done, made a partial 
report to the town. The matter Avas fully discussed, but owing to a diver- 
sity of opinion manifest as to what form the memorial should take, no 



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course of action was adopted. At this meeting-, however, it was voted, 
"That the town sell the lot of land adjoining the town lands, known as 
the School House Lot, at pul)llc auction, the proceeds of the sale to be 
appropriated to the use of the Soldiers' Monument Committee. 

At the annual meetiuij:, March 3, 1873, the subject was further discussed 
by the town, and the opinion generally expressed that the work should l)e 
(•()ini)leted at an early dvy. At this meeting James T. Stevens and Wm. 
M. Ivichards were, by vote of the town, added to the committee to fill 
vacancies caused by the removal from town of Edward Potter and Jason 
G. Howard. 

Subsequently several meetings were held and various plans suggested 
and discussed, there appearing a diflerence of opinion upon the form of 
memorial tliat should be adopted, a portion of the committee favoring the 
erection of a monumental shaft, while another portion advocated placing 
marble tablets in the Free Public Library Building, then in process of 
erection. 

It was finallj' determined to submit the question to the decision of the 
town, and at a special meeting held on the twenty-seventh da}'^ of June, 
1873, numerously attended, after a full and thorough discussion of the 
whole subject it was voted nearly unanimously " That the Soldiers' Monu- 
ment Committee be instructed to erect upon some portion of the town 
land, near the Town House, a statue cut in granite, after a model submitted 
by Messrs. Battersou & Canfield, of Hartford, Conn., with a pedestal de- 
signed by Messrs. H. & J. E. Billings, architects, of Boston, at a cost not 
exceeding .$5,000, above the foundation." 

The committee, representing to the meeting that with the " Citizens i 
Fund," so called, and previous appropriations made by the towu, the sum* 
of .$2,500 additional would be sufficient to complete the work, it was voted 
"That the sum of $2,500 be raised and appropriated, and the whole, or so 
nuich of the same as may be necessarj^, be placed at the disposal of the 
Soldiers' Monument Committee, for the erection of a monumental statue 
to our deceased soldiers, in accordance with a vote passed at this meeting, 
the said sum to be additional to any moneys already voted to be appropri- 
ated by the town for this purpose." 

April 6, 1874, the towu by vote appropriated $500 in addition to all 
previous appropriations, and authorized the committee to make the 
necessary arrangements for dedication. 

By the will of Mr. Harvey White, also, recently admitted to probate, a 
generous legacy of .$500 was given towards the erection of this monument, 
which has not yet been received, but which we have anticipated in the 
expenditures already incurred. 

The committee, after consultation with competent judges, and by advice 
of the Messrs. Billings, whose skill and judgment as architects stand in the 
foremost rank, awarded the contract to Messrs. Batterson &, Canfield, of 
Hartford, who, we are gratified to state, have performed their work in a 
thorough and satisfactory manner. The foundation is substantially con- 
structed of granite, and was l)uilt by contract by Mr. N. M. Hobart of this 
town. 

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50 

The statue is a full-sized model of a soldier, staudiny- with his musket 
in position, at rest, and is cut from Westerly granite, which is considered 
by those best competent to judge equal if not superior to anj' other for 
this purpose. 

Fortunately, no difference of opinion existed either on the part of the 
committee or among the citizens of the town upon the question of location, 
all conceding that it should l)e placed in the most honorable and conspic- 
uous position, upon the town lauds in close proximity to the public 
buildings of the town. 

The committee have used every effort to secure an accurate and correct 
list of all who died or were killed in service, upon the quota of the town, 
and trust no errors have been committed. 

Tiie inscriptions placed upon the pedestal are, upon the front, " The 
town of Braintree builds this monument in grateful remembrance of the 
brave men whose names it bears "; also, " 1874," denoting the year of its 
erection. Upon the reverse this simple inscription, " Dying they 
triumphed." 

Upon the north and south sides are the names of those of the quota of 
Braintree who died or were killed in service, and the regiments to which 
they belonged; also, " 1861" at the top and " 1805 " beneath, denoting the 
duration of the war. 

The funds placed at the disposal of the committee were as follows : — 

Citizens' fund and interest $2,3;]8 10 

Town appropriations ....... 3,028 07 

Due from legacy Harvey White 500 00 



The expenditures have been, for 



!0,40G 26 



Foundation work, ~| 

Statue and pedestal, 

Grading, etc.. 

Plans, 

Incidental expenses, 



al)Out 0,000 00 



Leaving for expenses of dedication and completion of 
grading, about .$500 00 

F. A. IIOB.\IiT, Chairman. 

Asa French, James T. Stevens, 

L. W. HoBART, Alverdo Mason, 

E. W. Arnold, Wm. M. Kichards, 

Horace Abercrombie, Marcus A. Perkins, 

Alva Morrison, C. W. Procter, 

Abljaii Allen, 

Monnment Committee, 



51 

After the reading of this report, INIr. Ilobart continued, — 

Now, fellow-citizens, haviiiif concluded with the exercises of this day 
the duty you selected us to perform, your committee sulimit their report, 
and unveil to your view the result of their labors, surrendering into your 
hands and keeping forever the emblematic structure which we to-day 
dedicate to the memory of the men of Braintree who fell in the war of the 
Rebellion. 

It is to the memory of her soldiers that the citizens of Braintree have 
raised this pedestal of solid granite, placing thereon this mute sentinel to 
watch over and guard their graves. No truer husbands, no fonder fathers, 
no kinder brothers, no more cherished sous ever faced the foe in the stern 
vicissitudes of conflict than the martyrs whose ashes repose beneath our 
soil or whose bones still bleach upon Southern battle-fields. Fresh in 
our recollection are the manly looks and the martial bearing of those men 
as they left our midst to engage in the fierce contest for national life. 
With pride we recall the feats of daring and courage, the unsubdued spirit, 
the soul unshaken by defeat, the sublime victories of that Grand Army in 
which our townsmen were numbei'ed in the Roll of Honor; and well, oh! 
too well we remember, how, one by one, they came back to us silent in 
death, to be borne in sad and solemn procession through otir streets 
to the spot of burial, their loss causing the gray head to bow with grief, 
and sending the burden of sorrow to the hearts of those avIio loved them, 
making forsaken firesides and desolate hearths in many of our homes. 

Time has softened in some degree the cruel stroke that fell so heavily 
on mourning circles, and we reconcile ourselves to submission, because 
we know that to them and their living comrades we owe the uncounted 
blessings and the unspeakable privileges Avhich we to-day enjoy as citizens. 

Better or braver men never poured out their blood or yielded up their 
lives for the good of their native land ; and as our children in the years 
hereafYer shall gaze on this memorial offering, remembering the dust it 
hallows, the inward, unspoken thanksgiving shall go up to God that our 
old and honorable town had her full share of heroes, to do, to dare, and to 
die for the preservation of the Republic and the liberties of the people ; and 
while the world stands, the pealing anthem, the solemn prayer, and this 
enduring memento shall perpetuate the remembrance of their gallant lives 
and their patriotic death. 

At the close of this fitting address, pra3'er was made bv Rev. 
George S. Ball, of lI[)ton, (rrand Chaplain of the (irand Army of 
Massachusetts, and after vocal music, the assemblage adjourned to 
Yale's large tent on the Common. Here, before an audience of 
several tliousand pe()[)le, the Kcv. Louis E. Ciiarpiot asketl tlie 
blessuig of God upon the da_y ; a select chorus, led b}^ N. Warren 
Penniman, sang Eichberg's hj'mn, 

'' Ti) thee, O country, great and free, 
With tnistiiisj lioaits we cling," 



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and the president of the afternoon, vVsa French, gave the following 
address : — 

Braiutree at last renders tardy honor to the memory of its dead heroes. 
To-day we buikl a mouunient which proclaims to the world our uiidyinu; 
gratitude aud affection for the Ijrave men whose names are inscribed upon 
it. Aud we fondly hope that it will endure for all time as a testimony to 
our children and our children's children that we were not unmindful of the 
debt we owe to them. How great a debt it is ! How inadequate our pay- 
ment ! It seems but yesterday since they went out from among us, — those 
fathers and brothers, husbands and sons ; with firm step and hearts that 
knew no fear, they went forth to defend with their lives that country 
which they and we loved so well. Our prayers and hopes weut with them. 
Through many a weary march they toiled, on many a battle-field they 
fought ; bravely and without complaint they toiled, bi-avely thej- fouglit, 
and died. On battle-fleld, in camp, in hospital, some, thank God, at home, 
surrounded and ministered to l).v loving friends, — they all died for u^ ! But 
" dying they triumphed," — triumphed in the si;ccess of the cause for 
■which they fell. Nay, even over death itself they triumphed, for in death 
they are immortal. 

There are hearts that will bleed anew, and eyes that will fill with tears 
to-day as they read the names inscribed on yonder monument. The faces 
and forms of l)rothers and sons, long since buried out of sight, will come 
back again in memory, and grief will be felt as over new-made graves. 

As we pay merited honor to the dead, let us not forget the living, who 
laid these, their most precious offerings, on the altar of their country. Nor 
shall our gratitude ever fail towards those who, braving the perils of war 
in the same cause for which their conu-ades died, were permitted to come 
back to their homes in health and strength. Justly we assign to them the 
post of honor on this occasion. The post of honor in our hearts they 
shall ever hold ! 

This day we consecrate to the precious dead. Our duty will be best per- 
formed if we forget ourselves and think only of them aud their deeds. 
And as we dwell upon the simple but heroic story of their lives, may their 
example cause to grow in our hearts a deeper and purer love of country, 
and a stronger devotion to the principles for which their blood was shed. 

Baldwin's Band, of Boston, played a dirge ; Rev. George A. 
Thayer, of Boston, read the necrology which constitutes the prin- 
cipal part of this volume ; other music hy the chorus followed ; aud 
the orator of the daj', Major-Geu. Nathaniel P. Banks, then 
gave an acceptable address, avIucIi, lieing wholly withont notes, 
could not be adequately reported. After more vocal and instru- 
mental music, the audience was dismissed with a benediction fnun 
Rev. S. 1*. Andrews. 



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APPENDIX III 



The part taken b^y the women of the town in hearing the burdens 
of the war was too honoral)le to ))e left without notice. 

Earl}' in the fall of 18G1 active efforts were made b}' the women 
' at public gatherings to create an interest among their sex in con- 
tributing to the needs of the soldiers' hospitals, and as a result, 
creditable contributions were made to the Sanitary Commission, 
that grand and noble charitable organization which saved so many 
thousands of men's lives in the course of the war. 

In the summer of 18G2 these efforts took organized shape b}' the 
formation of a branch of the Sanitary Commission, of which IMrs. 
Daniel F. Leonard was chosen president, Miss Amelia L. Bumpus, 
secretary, and Miss Catharine Willis, treasurer. 

This society never had any large sums of money at its disposal, 
but diligent hands made np man}* packages of bedding, clothing, 
lint and bandages, and delicacies of diet, which were gratefully 
acknowledged by the Sanitar}' Commission agents, and often heard 
from as ministering to many a needy sufferer in the arm}-. 

An illustration of the spirit of some of the women in raising 
funds f(n- these purposes of mercy is Avorth preserving. One sum- 
mer, when money was hard to get, a townsman jocosel}- offered, 
without thinking his proposal would be accepted, to give the ladies 
a load of hay, lying in the wet meadows, if they would carr\' it 
away. The}- promptly accepted the gift, and as men were not for- 
ward to oifer their help without pay, several of the younger women 
went into the fields, loaded the hay, had it pi-aporly weighed, and 
duh' dcposilcd in the barn of a purchaser, and converted the pro- 
ceeds into stockings, drawers, and shirts for the men at the front. 



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